[whatwg] Entity parsing

[Kornel Lesinski]

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. Semicolon (or any  
non-alphanumeric character actually) is required in attributes, but in  
text it is not.

In IE6 <a href="&region">&region</a> is equivalent to
<a href="&region">®ion</a>

-- 
regards, Kornel Lesiński