On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 09:26:25 GMT, Pavel Rappo <pra...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> I admit to being "lazy" when I wrote `startsWith("on")`. In general, I don't
>> think folk should be writing many if any event handlers in doc comments, and
>> it was easier to give forward compatibility with a weak test for `"on"`.
>> Likewise, there should not be many if any uses of `data-*` attributes, and
>> it is easy enough to give a simple regex. It's more important to not reject
>> valid uses of event attributes and custom data attributes than it is to
>> detect all invalid cases. The right place to detect all invalid cases is
>> downstream in recognized validation tools, like `tidy` which catch all
>> occurrences of bad stuff, wherever they originate (doc comment, command-line
>> options, the `javadoc` tool, post-processors, etc). DocLint is primarily an
>> "early warning system" for common errors.
>
> I agree with you, Jon. So, we can simply use `startsWith("data-")`, which
> would be good enough and most permissive (i.e. no false negatives).
Sure, I will go with that.
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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/19652#discussion_r1636140103
