Hi Stephan

You're right, I misread the spec. I'll update the restrictions to allow
digits; I still don't think we should be as liberal as HTML attributes.

Best wishes

Jeremy



On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 7:48 AM, Stephan Hradek <[email protected]>wrote:

>
>
> Am Sonntag, 27. April 2014 15:56:26 UTC+2 schrieb Jeremy Ruston:
>
>>
>> The spec doesn't allow digits in HTML attribute names, but in practice it
>> seems that most browsers are quite happy with them.
>>
>
> Which specs are you referring to?
>
> For HTML5 I found:
>
> Attributes have a name and a value. Attribute names must consist of one
>> or more characters other than the space 
>> characters<http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/infrastructure.html#space-character>,
>> U+0000 NULL, U+0022 QUOTATION MARK ("), U+0027 APOSTROPHE ('), ">"
>> (U+003E), "/" (U+002F), and "=" (U+003D) characters, the control
>> characters<http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/infrastructure.html#control-characters>,
>> and any characters that are not defined by Unicode. In the HTML syntax,
>> attribute names, even those for foreign 
>> elements<http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/syntax.html#foreign-elements>,
>> may be written with any mix of lower- and uppercase letters that are an ASCII
>> case-insensitive<http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/infrastructure.html#ascii-case-insensitive>match
>>  for the attribute's name.
>
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/syntax.html#attributes-0
>



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