- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 15:28:38 +0200
- To: Etan Wexler <ewexler@stickdog.com>
- Cc: Web style list <www-style@w3.org>, "David Baron" <dbaron@fas.harvard.edu>
* Etan Wexler wrote:
>Are escaped characters in CSS reserved identifiers equivalent to the
>literal forms? Or, rather, are the identifiers then equivalent?
>Observe:
>
>@impo\rt \url("style") \screen;
Interpreting CSS Level 2, this one is invalid, the import keyword is a
literal string in Appendix D.2, same for the the url function as in
section 4.1.1 and as per section 4.1.3 identifiers may *contain*
escapes, but the prose doesn't state that nmstart tokens may contain
escapes, section 4.1.1 conflicts with this, one of those sections is in
error.
>If the escaped forms are equivalent, the grammars of CSS1, CSS2, and
>CSS3 need an overhaul. If the escaped forms are not equivalent, the
>CSS object model needs a way to differentiate between escapes and
>literal characters.
Hm, it has, if they are not equivalent, an \url(...) would be a
CSS_UNKNOWN primitive value while url(...) would be a CSS_URI value...
However, it's impossible to make this distinction, if
background\-color: green
isn't canonically equivalent to
background-color: green
what is it then? The question rather is, do escapes apply to predefined
identifiers, i.e. is the escaped property valid at all? This one of
those cases where I said the CSS Level 2 grammar is way too lose.
regards,
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