inconsistency between html spec and validator from Thiemo Nagel on 2002-06-14 (www-validator@w3.org from June 2002)

From: Thiemo Nagel <thiemonagel@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 19:05:32 +0200
To: www-validator@w3.org
Message-ID: <3D0A225C.E9373F74@gmx.de>

Hello,

I believe there is an inconsitency between HTML 4.01 spec and validator
behaviour.

The parser validates this as correct:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
	<head>
		<title>Title</title>
	</head>

	<body>
		<a href="bla"onclick="blupp">linktext</a>
		<a
		href="bla" onclick="blupp">linktext</a>
	</body>
</html>

I believe it to be incorrect. HTML 4.01 spec states that attribute-value
pairs are seperated by spaces [1] whereas the above example has the
space ommited or is using whitespace such as newline and tabs and still
validates as correct.

[1]: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/intro/sgmltut.html#h-3.2.2

I have searched the web for more info about this (I think it must be
somewhere in the SGML spec) but have found none.

Any ideas?


best regards,

Thiemo Nagel

Received on Friday, 14 June 2002 13:04:59 UTC