[whatwg] Please make < inside tags a parse error

Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi
Mon Jun 18 02:57:24 PDT 2007


On Jun 18, 2007, at 12:47, Simon Pieters wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:24:31 +0200, Thomas Broyer  
> <t.broyer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.

The source code looks like it parses to something different than it  
actually does. This makes typos harder to spot. I've made this a  
warning in my working copy.

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Henri Sivonen
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