- From: David Bryant <davidbryant@att.net>
- Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 09:16:44 -0700
- To: Aubrey Jaffer <agj@alum.mit.edu>
- CC: www-validator@w3.org
Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: >* Aubrey Jaffer wrote: > > >>My reading of HTML-3.2 is that <A NAME="cindex_>"> >>must instead be <A NAME="cindex_>">. >> >> Maybe this will make it clearer ... the html parser "sees" the < sign, starts looking for a > sign to go with it, but then sees a ", so starts looking for another ", doesn't even notice the next > because it's in search of a ", finds the ", and then switches back to looking for a >, which it finds immediately. The standards here are effectively just syntax rules to make certain every "valid" string can be interpreted unambiguously. dcb PS Notice, in the paragraph you cited, that neither < nor > may occur in an attribute value unless the value is enclosed in quotes. Again, this rule is intended to make the html unambiguous.
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