- From: Liam R. E. Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 16:52:24 -0500
- To: spec-prod@w3.org
On Sun, 2017-11-19 at 17:19 +0900, Martin J. Dürst wrote:
> On 2017/11/19 16:28, Liam R. E. Quin wrote:
> > On Sat, 2017-11-18 at 22:26 -0800, Matt King wrote:
> >
> > > Is there a good reason to use " instead of " when writing
> > > code
> > > samples in our specs?
> >
> > None that i'm aware of. You need & and < though.
>
> If there's one, then it's probably "No need to have to think about
> whether I'm in an attribute, or in content." That can come in handy
> in programs, or when you expect a lot of copying of content from
> attribute values to content and back.
Agreed but i doubt that happens with the XMLSPec DTD - putting human-
visible content in attributes is an XML anti-pattern of course :)
It's more likely to be from people not remembering what to quote.
Matt, and others - if you're using CDATA sections, by the way, to avoid
having to remember what to quote, be careful to avoid ]]> appearing
inside them, which does sometimes happen with embedded JavaScript -
if (arr[i+offestes[i]]>j) { ....
Best,
Liam
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