- From: Jon Ribbens <jon+www-validator@unequivocal.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 11:39:30 +0100
- To: www-validator@w3.org
David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk> wrote: > > Either that, or one of the cases where "valid" doesn't mean what > > people expect it to - i.e. HTML that conforms to the HTML specification. > > No. > > By default, SGML requires that all attribute values be delimited > using either double quotation marks (ASCII decimal 34) or single > quotation marks (ASCII decimal 39). Single quote marks can be > included within the attribute value when the value is delimited by > double quote marks, and vice versa. Sorry, I think you missed my point. An excerpt such as: <input type="text" name="foo" size="12'"> is "valid" according to the DTD (and hence the Validator), but it is not correct HTML. HTML Tidy will correctly identify this as a problem. Both the W3C Validator and HTML Tidy are behaving correctly as designed, but you can see why people might get confused.
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