[whatwg] Entity parsing

[Anne van Kesteren]

On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:21:06 +0200, Kornel Lesinski <kornel at geekhood.net>  
wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:37:46 +0100, Anne van Kesteren <annevk at opera.com>  
> wrote:
>>>> I've defined the parsing and conformance requirements in a way that
>>>> matches IE. As a side-effect, this has made things like "na&iumlve"
>>>> actually conforming. I don't know if we want this.
>>>
>>> Rather not. This would break unencoded URLs:
>>>
>>> ?foo=bar&region=baz → ?foo=bar®ion=baz
>>
>> You mean that Internet Explorer breaks them already? That doesn't make  
>> much sense to me.
>
> No, IE doesn't break them, and that's the point.
>
> Section 8.2.3.1. states "This definition is used when parsing entities  
> in text and in attributes." - if I understand this correctly, this makes  
> semicolon optional for entities in both attributes and text and  
> "&region" in attribute would be interpreted as "®ion".
> If that's the case, it is not compatible with IE, because it parses  
> entities differently in attributes and text. In attributes semicolon  
> (any non-alphanumeric character actually) is required, but in text it is  
> not.
>
> In IE6 <a href="&region">&region</a> is equivalent to <a  
> href="&amp;region">®ion</a>

Awesome. Guess we have to reverse engineer that too then...


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