[whatwg] Please make < inside tags a parse error
Simon Pieters
zcorpan at gmail.com
Mon Jun 18 02:47:22 PDT 2007
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:24:31 +0200, Thomas Broyer <t.broyer at gmail.com>
wrote:
>> "<" 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).
Right.
> Parse errors are for conformance checkers, and I
> believe those should report "<" in unquoted attribute values as
> errors.
Why? It doesn't create any problem as far as parsing goes in legacy UAs.
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Simon Pieters
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