- From: Benjamin Niemann <pink@odahoda.de>
- Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 15:19:22 +0200
- To: www-validator@w3.org
Jukka K. Korpela wrote: > Regarding the W3C Validator, I wonder whether it _really_ has a bug in > processing of attribute values. If I use > <input maxlength=" 12"> > the validator reports no error. Yet, I cannot see anything in the SGML > standard that would allow the leading space, when the attribute is > declared as NUMBER. The validator is correct. "An attribute value other than character data is tokenized by [...] and ignoring leading or trailing SPACE characters" (Clause 7.9.3 of ISO 8879). This happends before the number token (which does not allow whitespace) is recognized. -- Benjamin Niemann Email: pink at odahoda dot de WWW: http://pink.odahoda.de/
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