On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > Quoting Ian Hickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > You should probably try harder ;-) Anyway, setting |value=""| on a form > > > control should not result in the DOM attribute value being "on". It > > > should result in it being "" and that should be submitted. > > > > Ok. I agree with this. However, you go on to say: > > > > > (Sections 2.3 and 2.4 have to be edited for this.) > > > > I don't see anything in either 2.3 or 2.4 that contradicts what you said > > above. This is why I was confused earlier, I guess. The bits you quoted in > > your earlier mails agreed with what you were saying should happen, and > > then you said they should change... > > # A control is said to have no value selected if its value is the > # empty string. > > "empty string" was the bit I was falling over.
But that doesn't have any effect on radio buttons or check boxes. (Especially now that I've removed that odd example I mentioned.) > > > It does not. Sorry about that. I just want to make it clear that XML > > > has some stupid rules authors should be aware about when dealing > > > with forms. This seemed like the most appropriate place to add the > > > note. > > > > I don't see how these rules will affect users unless they go out of > > their way to make DTDs, in which case they deserve whatever they get. > > The normalization happens without DTDs. Well, yeah, the basic normalisation that happens to any attribute including HTML attributes and so forth. But the confusing normalisation only occurs with DTDs. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
