- From: Mike Sokolov <sokolov@falutin.net>
- Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:17:26 -0400
- To: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
- Cc: public-microxml@w3.org
On 09/14/2012 03:08 PM, David Carlisle wrote: > On 14/09/2012 18:13, David Lee wrote: >> Maybe the story for Microxml based languages could "don't do that" >> ... e.g. > > perhaps but it depends a bit on our HTML(5) story. HTML5 parsing > includes svg (without explicit svg namespace) it just seems that > saying attribute values have to be a single line is putting a > constraint on authors to avoid an edge case that rarely causes > problems in practice. > > Do we really want to say that you shouldn't use microxml to author > html documents such as the example document in the polyglot spec? > > David > > My read of "don't do that" would be: You can do it if you want to, but not if you want predictable behavior. It's a recommendation rather than a restriction? If we say that is implementation-dependent whether attribute whitespace is normalized, that would make it clear that applications should not rely on any particular normalization behavior. -Mike
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