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Bug 11613 - At step 6 - for an empty Token, all the space characters will be removed then what is being added at Step 7 and how the empty string is getting counted ?
Summary: At step 6 - for an empty Token, all the space characters will be removed then...
Status: RESOLVED NEEDSINFO
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LC1 HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2010-12-28 08:08 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-08-04 05:14 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2010-12-28 08:08:21 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/common-microsyntaxes.html
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#comma-separated-tokens

Comment:
At setp 6 - for an empty Token, all the space characters will be removed then
what is being added at Setp 7 and how the empty string is getting counted ?

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Comment 1 Aryeh Gregor 2010-12-29 19:40:33 UTC 
It seems pretty clear that the token list that the algorithm returns can contain the empty string.  Step five even calls this out explicitly.  So "foo,, bar  ,  ,baz" would become ["foo", "", "bar", "", "baz"].
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-01-24 19:48:14 UTC 
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Status: Did Not Understand Request
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: If the question is "what does step 6 add when /s/ is the empty string" then the answer is "the empty string". I don't see the problem here. Could you elaborate?
Comment 3 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:14:07 UTC 
mass-move component to LC1