[whatwg] [wf2] Note about XML attribute value handling

[Anne van Kesteren]

Could we perhaps make a note about this in the WF2 specification:
  <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#AVNormalize>

Preferably somewhere close to <input type=hidden>. My weblog used to run 
on XHTML and previewed weblog comments where stored inside the VALUE 
attribute of a hiddenINPUT element (actually, that is still the case). 
As XHTML means the above mentioned XML rule applies all formatting got 
lost. That was a major problem for white-space significant replies. 
(Replies using the PRE element.)

I think it might make sense for the specification to point that out. And 
perhaps provide a way in a future update to the specification to have a 
hidden TEXTAREA. (Such a TEXTAREA can be implemented now using: 
<textarea style="display:none">foo</textarea>.)

There was a similar problem with the XHTML admin of Movable Type as 
described here:
  <http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/blog/archives/000564.html>


-- 
  Anne van Kesteren
  <http://annevankesteren.nl/>