- From: Anne van Kesteren <fora@annevankesteren.nl>
- Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 01:13:50 +0200
Quoting Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch>: >> You should probably try harder ;-) Anyway, setting |value=""| on a form >> control should not result in the DOM attribute value being "on". It >> should result in it being "" and that should be submitted. > > Ok. I agree with this. However, you go on to say: > >> (Sections 2.3 and 2.4 have to be edited for this.) > > I don't see anything in either 2.3 or 2.4 that contradicts what you said > above. This is why I was confused earlier, I guess. The bits you quoted in > your earlier mails agreed with what you were saying should happen, and > then you said they should change... # A control is said to have no value selected if its value is the # empty string. "empty string" was the bit I was falling over. >> It does not. Sorry about that. I just want to make it clear that XML has >> some stupid rules authors should be aware about when dealing with forms. >> This seemed like the most appropriate place to add the note. > > I don't see how these rules will affect users unless they go out of their > way to make DTDs, in which case they deserve whatever they get. The normalization happens without DTDs. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/>
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