HTML BNF

• From: Brian Behlendorf <brian@wired.com>
• Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 13:58:39 -0700 (PDT)
• To: www-html@www0.cern.ch
• Message-Id: <Pine.3.89.9409281348.f4684-0100000@get.wired.com>

I couldn't quite find an answer to this in the HTML 2.0 RFC (and I don't 
know SGML well enough to determine this) so I thought I'd bring it here.  
What characters are *not* allowed between quotes in an attribute tag?
Specifically, 

<INPUT type="hidden" name="foo" value="[some text]">

So far in my testing I've determined that " and > are not allowed there - 
the former treating that as the end quote, the latter interpreting it as 
the end of the INPUT tag.  I can handle those two special conditions fine 
- is there anything else that I should worry about?  Or should I do 
something really ugly like uuencode whatever data I want to put there?  :)

	Brian
	

Received on Wednesday, 28 September 1994 21:59:13 UTC