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Bug 21312 - The get an attribute algorithm should say what to do if it reaches the end of the byte stream before the end of the attribute name or value is reached. Probably it aborts the algorithm with the attrib [...]
Summary: The get an attribute algorithm should say what to do if it reaches the end of...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2013-03-16 19:56 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2013-04-23 00:05 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2013-03-16 19:56:06 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/parsing.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#documentEncoding
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#documentEncoding

Comment:
The get an attribute algorithm should say what to do if it reaches the end of
the byte stream before the end of the attribute name or value is reached.
Probably it aborts the algorithm with the attribute name or value it got so
far.

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-04-23 00:03:49 UTC 
My intent was that "If at any point during these steps the user agent either runs out of bytes or reaches its end condition, then abort the prescan a byte stream to determine its encoding algorithm unsuccessfully." would apply to "get an attribute". I've made this clearer.
Comment 2 contributor 2013-04-23 00:05:11 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r7848.
Check-in comment: Be clearer about how preparsing handles running out of bytes.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=7847&to=7848