On 24.06.2010 10:00, Henri Sivonen wrote:
"Benjamin M. Schwartz"<bmsch...@fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
The HTML5 spec appears to allow ">" inside an attribute value. For
example, the following page (note the body tag) passes the
experimental
HTML5 validator at w3c.org:
<!DOCTYPE HTML><html><head><title></title></head>
<body class="3>2">
</body></html>
I think ">" should be disallowed inside attribute values. It is
disallowed in XHTML [1]. It is disallowed in HTML 4.01 [2].
Disallowing
it in HTML5 would avoid unnecessary divergence, and also sometimes
simplify parsing.
Actually, disallowing it would require adding a switch-case to check for '>'.
Not checking for it is simpler.
I think we shouldn't disallow harmless stuff just because XML or HTML 4.01 did.
XML doesn't disallow it.
Best regards, Julian
