[whatwg] Parsing: Attributes in End Tags

[Ian Hickson]

On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Lachlan Hunt wrote:
> > 
> > Since that would be somewhat hard to define neatly, I've instead just 
> > added a requirement at the end of the tokeniser to cover this.
> 
> | When an end tag token is emitted with attributes, that is an easy
> | parse error.
> 
> Wouldn't it be easier to add that requirement either before the 
> attribute is created or when the end tag is omitted from the the 
> attribute name/value states?

Well, it wouldn't be as easy as that, no. Might still be relatively easy 
to do, but it would not be just one line somewhere.


> Is it expected that when an end tag token is emitted, it will include 
> all the attributes as well?  I would have expected that the attributes 
> would be dropped during tokenisation, rather than just being ignored 
> during the tree construction phase.

End tags are currently defined as having attributes.

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