[whatwg] attribute value normalization

Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi
Thu Jul 21 16:01:53 PDT 2005


On Jul 21, 2005, at 23:36, Kornel Lesinski wrote:

> Are you sure? HTML4 DTD defines input type as enumeration, and all 
> sources I've found say that's not the same as CDATA.

The text/html side is tag soup. The XML side works without processing 
the DTD, so every attribute is CDATA.

DTD-based infoset augmentation considered harmful. Pretending that it 
happens when it does not also considered harmful. Besides, WHAT WG HTML 
is DTDless.

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