- From: Daniel Dardailler <danield@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 13:53:19 +0200
- To: "Leonard R. Kasday" <kasday@acm.org>
- cc: Nir Dagan <nir@nirdagan.com>, Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>, w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org
> At 04:22 PM 6/24/99 -0400, Nir Dagan wrote: > >Generally null is not white space but the specs say that leading and > >trailing white space in CDATA attribute values can be egnored by user > >agents. E.g., "myval" may be treated as " myval " > > In addition, http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/types.html#h-6.2 states that > > "Authors should not declare attribute values with leading or trailing white > space. " > > Seems to me that rules out " " or am I reading this wrong? It looks like " > " has both leading and trailing white space in fact. Note that an XML engine will pass whitespaces on *if the declared value is CDATA*. See Section 3.3.3 of the XML spec.
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