Re: Change proposal for issue 103, was: ISSUE-103 change proposal

On 24.03.2010 04:45, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> ...
> Julian & Philip, how confident are you that the full set of characters
> that need escaping is U+003C, U+000D, U+000A, U+0009 and U+0020? Does &
> need to be escaped?
> ...

I'm 99% confident. Philip already pointed out one oversight, but there 
may be more. That's why we have WG to review this.

An alternative point of view is: why do we introduce a new attribute 
that is so hard to get right that we don't dare ourselves to describe how?

And yes, "&" needs to be escaped, just as in HTML. That's why the change 
proposal says: "as well".

> Speaking in my non-chairing capacity, I think it is better to have
> correct advice than no advice, but worse to have incorrect advice than
> no advice. Is there anything we can do to review what characters may be
> special in an attribute value?
> ...

Testing?

How is this different from the advice for text/html? Why give advice for 
one format but not the other?

Best regards, Julian

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