[whatwg] Please make < inside tags a parse error

Thomas Broyer t.broyer at gmail.com
Mon Jun 18 02:24:31 PDT 2007


2007/6/18, Simon Pieters:
> On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 23:15:33 +0200, Henri Sivonen wrote:
> >
> > U+003C LESS-THAN SIGN (<)
> >    Parse error. Then treat according to the "Anything else" entry below.
>
> "<" in unquoted attribute values works interoperably. No need to make it a
> parse error in the attribute value (unquoted) state.

This doesn't mean it should be conforming either (actually, it's
entirely orthogonal). Parse errors are for conformance checkers, and I
believe those should report "<" in unquoted attribute values as
errors.

-- 
Thomas Broyer



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