"Benjamin M. Schwartz" <[email protected]> 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. -- Henri Sivonen [email protected] http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
