[whatwg] Forbidden characters in text/html

Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi
Sat Feb 25 03:10:06 PST 2006


On Feb 25, 2006, at 02:02, Ian Hickson wrote:

> On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, Henri Sivonen wrote:
>>
>> Which characters should a text/html HTML5 conformance checker  
>> consider
>> forbidden? The same characters that are forbidden in XML 1.0 (\0, FF,
>> etc.)? Or some other set?
>
> In what context?

In the pre-parse Unicode character stream on one hand and in the post- 
parse (that is NCRs expanded) character data and attribute values on  
the other. IIRC, in XML 1.0 (but not 1.1) the restrictions are the  
same in both cases.

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Henri Sivonen
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