[whatwg] Allowed characters in attribute names (was: Re: Steps for finding one or two numbers in a string)

[Anne van Kesteren]

On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:26:48 +0200, Thomas Broyer <t.broyer at gmail.com>  
wrote:
> 2007/6/13, Simon Pieters:
>> On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:11:31 +0200, Thomas Broyer wrote:
>> > I'd rather change the #tokenisation section to generate more parse
>> > errors.
>>
>> Why? What if you want to pass a paramater to a plugin with non-ASCII
>> characters using <embed>?
>
> What would you do if you had to recode the document into 7bit ASCII?
> Would you recode the attribute name with a "pseudo-entity" (would the
> plugin then correctly interpret the parameter name?) Would you drop
> the non-ASCII character? Would you rather drop the attribute?

You'd throw an error.


> Btw, we'd have a similar problem if you use non-ASCII characters in
> CDATA elements... Should they be changed to RCDATA to accept entities?
> or should the recoder assume that \uNNNN escapes will be understood by
> the <script> or <style> parser/processor? if so, what should it do
> with codepoints outside the Basic Multilingual Plane: should it use
> \UNNNNNNNN escapes or a surrogate pair of \uNNNN escapes?

You'd throw an error. Can't change <script> and <style> for obvious legacy  
reasons.


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