- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 14:49:50 -0600
- To: www-html-editor@w3.org
/////////////// http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WD-html-in-xml-19990304/ 4.1.7 White space handling in attribute values XHTML alters the HTML 4.0 rules for the treatment of whitespace in attribute values. In particular, XHTML strips leading and trailing white space, and maps sequences of one or more white space characters (including line breaks) to a single inter-word space (an ASCII space character for western scripts). See Section 3.3.3 of [XML]. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ not so; the same stupid rules for attribute normalization are in SMGL '86 and hence HTML 4.0 Hmm... the relevant section of HTML 4.0 http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/intro/sgmltut.html#h-3.2.2 doesn't mention it, but it's implicit by way of normative reference to SGML. See section 7.9.3 of the SGML '86 spec. -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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