[whatwg] Parsing: Greater-than characters in doctype

Simon Pieters zcorpan at gmail.com
Fri Jun 29 02:41:38 PDT 2007


On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:20:38 +0200, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen at iki.fi> wrote:

> On Jun 29, 2007, at 11:59, Simon Pieters wrote:
>
>>    U+003E GREATER-THAN SIGN (>)
>>       Parse error. Set the DOCTYPE token's correctness flag to  
>> incorrect.
>>       Emit that DOCTYPE token. Switch to the data state.
>
> Should the string (public id or system id) that was being built be  
> dropped on the floor as well?

I don't see a good reason to drop it. The doctype's correctness flag is  
set to incorrect anyway. But I don't feel strongly about it either way.

-- 
Simon Pieters



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