- From: Steven J. DeRose <sjd@ebt.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 18:05:52 -0400
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
At 06:55 PM 09/12/96 +0100, Martin Bryan wrote: >HTML extends SHORTTAG attribute processing to beyond that of SGML (by saying >that unknown attribute names and associated values are ignored) for good >reasons. Attribute entry is one of the areas where users are most prone to >make typing errors (e.g. mistyped attribute names) or try to take short cuts >(such as leaving out the literal quotes or just entering a token value). That does not seem to me a good reason (other than leaving out quotes, which is not an extension beyond SGML SHORTTAG). If attributes are typo-prone, that seems a very good reason to *report the error*. A friendly application also has good reason not to crash or terminate after reporting that error, but that seems to me rather a different thing than ignoring the error; an issue of error recovery rather than of syntactic correctness.
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