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Peter Flynn scripsit: > "Whitespace in attributes is not normalized in MicroXML as it is in > XML." > > While I don't see this as a particular problem (at least for my own > work), I'm curious as to why this approach was chosen. It certainly > fits the principle of least interference...was there some idea that > web designers might want to embed rather more in an attribute than > most of us would expect? Since there is no DTD, the only normalization you would get is changing line endings inside attribute values to spaces. This was primarily to allow an attribute with space-separated values to be divided across multiple lines, back in the day of 80-column maximum lines. Quoth Tim Bray here on xml-dev in 2003: "We screwed up in letting attribute normalization into XML. It still boggles my mind in retrospect that during the discussions back in 96-97, nobody piped up to say 'why are you morons doing this?' Because we probably would have said 'D'oh, right, lose it.' Sigh." said it should have been removed from XML in the first place. Quoth James Clark in his blog: "I think this has to go. HTML5 does not do attribute value normalization. This means that it is theoretically possible for a MicroXML document to be interpreted slightly differently by an XML processor than by a MicroXML processor. However, I think this is unlikely to be a problem in practice. Do people really put newlines in attribute values and rely on their being turned into spaces? I doubt it." it from MicroXML. -- There is / One art John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> No more / No less http://www.ccil.org/~cowan To do / All things With art- / Lessness --Piet Hein
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