[whatwg] [wf2] repeat-min and max
J. King
jking at dark-phantasy.com
Fri Apr 7 07:16:40 PDT 2006
On Thu, 06 Apr 2006 18:11:55 -0300, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen at iki.fi> wrote:
> Section 3.4.
>
> "The repeat-min attribute specifies the number of repetition blocks that
> the remove button type will ensure are present each time a block is
> removed. Its value must be a positive integer (one or more digits 0-9
> interpreted as a base ten number). If the attribute is omitted or if it
> has an invalid value then it is treated as if its value was zero."
>
> Is zero intentionally excluded from the permissible values? Wouldn't it
> be more natural to spec the integer to be non-negative?
Likely Hixie meant for "positive" to include zero. Still, whether 0 is a
valid value or not is moot: invalid values are assumed to be zero, so it
all functionally adds up to the same thing. I suppose stating that the
value must be a non-negative integer would be more precise.
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J. King
http://jking.dark-phantasy.com/
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