Re: validator-bug from Bjoern Hoehrmann on 2003-03-17 (www-validator@w3.org from March 2003)

From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 16:08:02 +0100
To: Aubrey Jaffer <agj@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: www-validator@w3.org
Message-ID: <3ec53fcd.664870032@smtp.bjoern.hoehrmann.de>

* Aubrey Jaffer wrote:
> | From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
> | Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 03:11:16 +0100
> | 
> | * Aubrey Jaffer wrote:
> | >But validator.w3.org does not catch this error:
> | >
> | ><H4><A NAME="cindex_>">
> | >&#60;A NAME="cindex_&#62;"&#38;#62;&#60;/A&#62;
> | ></A></H4>
> | 
> | What error?
>
>My reading of HTML-3.2 is that <A NAME="cindex_>">
>must instead be <A NAME="cindex_&#62;">.

No, the paragraph you quoted is about <foo bar=baz> vs. <foo bar="baz">
i.e. when the attribute value must be surrounded by quote marks and when
you may omit those.

Received on Monday, 17 March 2003 10:07:02 UTC