- From: Lauke PH <P.H.Lauke@salford.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 15:50:44 +0100
- To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
> XHTML attributes aren't supposed to have any whitespace in them. I assume you read point 4.7 of <http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xhtml1-20000126/#diffs> "In attribute values, user agents will strip leading and trailing whitespace from attribute values and map sequences of one or more whitespace characters (including line breaks) to a single inter-word space (an ASCII space character for western scripts)." and subsequently followed on to read <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#AVNormalize> I have to admit, I had to read that last one a few times as well, but if I'm not mistaken the crucial point is this: "the XML processor must normalize the attribute value" In other words: you, as web author/developer, can use whitespace as usual. It's the XML processor that needs to then (internally) convert all whitespace characters until they meet those requirements. You can write your titles as normal, i.e. title="A new link." At least, that's what I understood. Somebody please slap me in the face with a big salmon if I'm talking nonsense. Patrick ________________________________ Patrick H. Lauke Webmaster / University of Salford http://www.salford.ac.uk
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