[whatwg] [wf2] Note about XML attribute value handling
Anne van Kesteren
fora at annevankesteren.nl
Tue May 10 16:37:14 PDT 2005
Mikko Rantalainen wrote:
>> 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.)
>
> <input type="hidden"> works just fine with existing UAs even when one
> uses application/xhtml+xml provided that all meaningful whitespace has
> been converted to entities.
for LF,
for CR and so on. PHP,
> for example, provides function htmlentities() exactly for this purpose.
Really? Why would 'htmlentities' be useful in an XML environment? Also,
getting HTML *entities* in your XML document doesn't seem like a good thing.
(I'm aware of possible solutions. It's just that you don't normally
think of this. Even Tim Bray - editor of the XML specification - called
it "broken as designed".)
--
Anne van Kesteren
<http://annevankesteren.nl/>
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