On 24.06.2010 15:34, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:
On 06/24/2010 05:22 AM, Brett Zamir wrote:
I do not see any reference to this in the XHTML 1.0 specification (nor
XHTML 1.1), and in XML, section 2.4, it states only that it must be
escaped if part of the sequence "]]>" in "content", which I guess means
only element content. E4X also does not escape ">" in attribute values
(only in element content).
The spec does not mention it as far as I can see. On the other hand,
validator.w3.org on XHTML 1.1 content says things like 'character ">" is
not allowed in the value of attribute "rel"'. Possibly as a result, XHTML
Likely because of the content model for @rel. Try @title instead.
generators typically escape this character, because otherwise they would
fail validation.
HTML5 is about making a spec that matches common practice, right? In
practice, no one puts ">" in attribute values.
I do it all the time.
Can we please stick to what is actually required, and not make up new
things?
Best regards, Julian
