ISSUE-87

attr-normalization

Should spec require whitespace normalization of attribute values, particularly in title attribute?

State:

RAISED

Product:

HTML 5 spec

Raised by:

Michael(tm) Smith

Opened on:

2009-10-26

Description:

quoting David Carlisle:

"In HTML4's SGML parsing, or XML parsing, literal newlines would be normalised to space characters, explicitly... In order to get a newline into the attribute value you need to use a character reference such as 
<abbr title="Hypertext &#10; Transport Protocol">HTTP</abbr> 

It would help future parallel authoring of HTML and X((HT)ML if the attribute
value white space normalisation happened in both serialisations."

Related bug: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=8003

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Related emails:

1. ISSUE-87: attr-normalization - Chairs Solicit Proposals (from Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com on 2009-11-19)
2. Re: {agenda} HTML WG telcon 2009-11-19: issues, action items, calls for consensus/proposals, task force reports (from oradnio@gmail.com on 2009-11-19)
3. Re: {agenda} HTML WG telcon 2009-11-19: issues, action items, calls for consensus/proposals, task force reports (from laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com on 2009-11-19)
4. {agenda} HTML WG telcon 2009-11-19: issues, action items, calls for consensus/proposals, task force reports (from Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com on 2009-11-18)
5. {agenda} HTML WG telcon 2009-11-19: issues, action items, calls for consensus/proposals, task force reports (from Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com on 2009-11-18)
6. minutes Re: {agenda} HTML WG telcon 2009-10-29: issues, action items, calls for consensus/proposals, task forces, F2F... (from cooper@w3.org on 2009-10-29)
7. Re: {agenda} HTML WG telcon 2009-10-29: issues, action items, calls for consensus/proposals, task forces, F2F... (from singer@apple.com on 2009-10-29)
8. {agenda} HTML WG telcon 2009-10-29: issues, action items, calls for consensus/proposals, task forces, F2F... (from rubys@intertwingly.net on 2009-10-28)
9. [Bug 8003] line breaks in attributes (especially title) (from bugzilla@wiggum.w3.org on 2009-10-26)

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