Re: SGML confirming? and HTML conformance testing
Gavin Nicol (gtn@ebt.com)
Tue, 18 Apr 95 12:58:51 EDT
>Take for example the fact that a lot of implementations allow any
>character that is not a space or '>' in unquoted attribute values. As
>a result everybody specifies URLS without quoting them. But SGML
>clearly specifies that you are only allowed to use name characters!
Yes. I guess we can't have mutlilingual data there either
(I'm not going to push support here, at the moment)...
>Another example. Most parsers end a tag when at the first '>', even
>when it occurs inside an quoted attribute value. This case is
Yes. I also just love the "<! I am a comment >" stuff,
>I would like to see a HTML specification that is a strict subset of
>SGML. What is otherwise the point of using SGML?
I agree, though the question will probably be endlessly debated...