- From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 00:47:02 -0400
- To: "Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu" <kanghaol@oupeng.com>
- Cc: "\"Zachary" "Gamer_Z." "Yaro\"" <zmyaro@gmail.com>, WWW Style <www-style@w3.org>, "Jens O. Meiert" <jens@meiert.com>
On Mon, 2012-08-27 at 19:44 +0800, Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu wrote: [...] > (12/08/25 13:01), Liam R E Quin wrote: > > <span style="color: red;// background-color: yellow; font-size: > > 36pt;"> Is "font-size" commented out in (1) the mind of the author, > > (2) the mind of the parser? > > Can you elaborate? Are you suggesting "font-size" should not be > commented out? That would be another proposal D. It's the status quo, as Tab pointed out. > > > In > > <span style="color: red; > > // background-color: yellow; > > font-size: 36pt;"> > > > > how does attribute value normalization interact with the comment? > > What is attribute value normalization? In XML and SGML attributes, newlines are converted to spaces by the parser. E.g. see http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#AVNormalize So, my two examples are actually the same. This doesn't matter for the status quo, with // working only up to the next ";", but does matter if // becomes a legal comment character. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml Co-author, 5th edition of "Beginning XML", July 2012
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