[whatwg] Handling of uplicate attribute names in tokenisation stage

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Wed Dec 20 13:35:26 PST 2006


On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Thomas Broyer wrote:
>
> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#attribute1
> """
> if there is already an attribute on the token with the exact same
> name, then this is a parse error and it must be dropped, along with
> the value that gets associated with it (if any).
> """
> 
> I assume the "it" in "it must be dropped" refers to the attribute being 
> currently parsed, not the one which were already there on the token (at 
> least, this is what was assumed in python's html5lib), but it's not 
> clear IMO.

Fixed. Thanks.

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