Re: Processing of &prod_id= in attributes from Philip Taylor on 2010-06-29 (public-html@w3.org from June 2010)

From: Philip Taylor <pjt47@cam.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:41:47 +0100
To: Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>
CC: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Message-ID: <4C2A3E6B.8070905@cam.ac.uk>

Adam Barth wrote:
> [...]
> Recall that &prod; is an HTML entity.  According to my reading of
> <http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/tokenization.html#tokenizing-character-references>,
> we ought to consume the "&prod" in an attribute as a named entity.

You ought to consume characters matching one of the identifiers in the 
first column of the named character references table 
<http://whatwg.org/html#named-character-references>.

That table includes "prod;" but not "prod", so you should never consume 
just "prod".

> Notice, however, that when we use &pound; in a similar way, Minefield
> does consume "&pound" as a named entity:

The table includes both "pound;" and "pound", so it can be consumed when 
the semicolon is missing.

-- 
Philip Taylor
pjt47@cam.ac.uk

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