[whatwg] Unsafe SGML minimizations

[Ian Hickson]

On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Henri Sivonen wrote:
>
> I think the text/html flavor of HTML5 should not allow the following SGML
> minimization features (which are theoretically allowed in HTML 4), because
> each of them causes problems in at least one of Opera, Firefox and Safari.
> 
>  * <>
>  * </>

Agreed. Those should generate comment nodes, I think.


>  * tagc omission ie. <foo<bar>...</bar</foo>

Well we have to define what that does, and the most obvious error handling 
behaviour here is to start the new tag. So effectively, I would say we 
shoul have TAGC omission.


>  * <foo/bar/

Agreed, sadly. That would be equivalent to something like <foo /bar/=""> 
(or something similar).


>  * attribute name omission (except for the well-known "boolean attributes")

Again, we have to define error handling. <foo bar baz> will probably just 
be equivalent to <foo bar="" baz="">.

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