[whatwg] Allow omitting ="" for attributes?

Simon Pieters zcorpan at hotmail.com
Wed Nov 15 01:00:48 PST 2006


Hi,

From: "Rohan Prabhu" <rohan2kool at gmail.com>
>In that case, we need to have a provision in either DTD or XML-Schema
>to allow empty attributes and take default values instead, as this
>proposal clearly violates XML Syntax rules.

The proposal was about HTML5, which is not XML (nor SGML). HTML5 has its own 
syntax rules.

   http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#syntax

>And we need to have a DTD, Schema or a validation entity somewhere to
>materialize the WHATWG's specifications.

Schemas won't be normative, but work in this area has been started:

   http://syntax.whattf.org/

Regards,
Simon Pieters

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