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https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=24211 Bug ID: 24211 Summary: < should be quoted in attribute values Product: WHATWG Version: unspecified Hardware: PC OS: All Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: DOM Parsing and Serialization Assignee: Ms2ger@gmail.com Reporter: mike@w3.org QA Contact: sideshowbarker+domparsingspec@gmail.com CC: costan@gmail.com, mike@w3.org, public-webapps-bugzilla@w3.org, www-dom@w3.org Quoting Victor's description and comments from Bug #24174: The XML specification forbids < in attribute values. Source 1: see the grammar for AttValue below. http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-common-syn Source 2: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#CleanAttrVals The XML serialization algorithm in the DOM Parsing and Serialization specification can produce < in XML attribute values. https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/innerhtml/raw-file/tip/index.html#dfn-concept-serialize-xml-attributes Specifically, step 2 substep 4 only quotes " and &. It should also quote < as <. One more note -- all browsers currently quote both < (as ^<) and > (as >) in XML attributes. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
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