[whatwg] Please make < inside tags a parse error

[Henri Sivonen]

On Jun 18, 2007, at 00:15, Henri Sivonen wrote:

> The new treatment of < inside tags is
>  * Potentially very confusing for authors
>  * Different from previous de jure parsing
>  * Different from what shipped Gecko and WebKit do.
>
> Therefore, please add an entry for < to tag name state, before  
> attribute name state, attribute name state, after attribute name  
> state and attribute value (unquoted) state:
>
> U+003C LESS-THAN SIGN (<)
>   Parse error. Then treat according to the "Anything else" entry  
> below.

Anne pointed out on IRC that I hadn't properly considered the tag  
name state, before attribute name state, attribute name state and  
after attribute name state being caught on a higher layer anyway.

In the case of attribute value (unquoted) state Gecko and WebKit  
already do what the spec says. It is highly confusing though.

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Henri Sivonen
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