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Bug 10887 - "garbage characters" in non-negative integers should be clarified
Summary: "garbage characters" in non-negative integers should be clarified
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/common-m...
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Reported: 2010-09-30 18:43 UTC by Adrian Bateman [MSFT]
Modified: 2010-10-12 07:43 UTC (History)
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Description Adrian Bateman [MSFT] 2010-09-30 18:43:16 UTC 
The spec says "Leading spaces are ignored. Trailing spaces and any trailing garbage characters are ignored." This should be changed to "Leading spaces are ignored. Trailing characters after any non-digit character outside the valid range are ignored."

This means that "10abc1" will be treated as "10" not as "101", for example.
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-10-05 18:05:27 UTC 
The algorithm seems unambiguous; do we really want to make the introductory sentence pedantically correct as well? It would make it harder to read, would it really help at all?
Comment 2 Adrian Bateman [MSFT] 2010-10-05 20:28:56 UTC 
Maybe just a clause pointing that these characters are defined in the algorithm below? This was reported to me from one of our reviews of the spec and was a stumbling block for the reader.
Comment 3 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-10-12 07:41:56 UTC 
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Status: Partially Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: I'll just remove the sentence entirely.
Comment 4 contributor 2010-10-12 07:43:14 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r5606.
Check-in comment: remove some non-normative text that was confusing some readers
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5605&to=5606