- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:30:24 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Cc: HTMLWG <public-html@w3.org>
On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, Leif Halvard Silli wrote: > > The note in section 3.2.3.8 goes to far: > > ]] > 3.2.3.8 Embedding custom non-visible data > A custom data attribute is an attribute in no namespace whose name starts with > the string "data-", has at least one character after the hyphen, is > XML-compatible, and contains no characters in the range U+0041 .. U+005A > (LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A to LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z). > > Note: All attributes in HTML documents get lowercased automatically, so the > restriction on > uppercase letters doesn't affect such documents. > [[ > > The correct thing AFAIK is that *only* ASCII names get lowercased in the > DOM. Non-ASCII attribute names stay as they are. I've made the note more precise. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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