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Bug 11285 - You're missing an "and" or something here, it's not clear when the last clause is applicable: if the algorithm was invoked in the attribute mode, any occurrences of the """ character by the string "&quot;", or if it was not, any occurrences of the "<" cha
Summary: You're missing an "and" or something here, it's not clear when the last claus...
Status: CLOSED FIXED
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: 2010-11-10 15:20 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-08-04 05:14 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description contributor 2010-11-10 15:20:35 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-end.html
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#serializing-html-fragments

Comment:
You're missing an "and" or something here, it's not clear when the last clause
is applicable: if the algorithm was invoked in the attribute mode, any
occurrences of the """ character by the string "&quot;", or if it was not, any
occurrences of the "<" character by the string "&lt;", any occurrences of the
">" character by the string "&gt;".

Posted from: 68.175.61.233 by AryehGregor+whatwgspec@gmail.com
Comment 1 Aryeh Gregor 2010-11-10 15:23:18 UTC 
I'm guessing you meant something like:

'''
if the algorithm was invoked in the attribute mode, any occurrences of the """ character by the string "&quot;"; or if it was not, any occurrences of the "<" character by the string "&lt;", and any occurrences of the ">" character by the string "&gt;".
'''
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-12-29 08:38:32 UTC 
Yeah, that could be clearer.
Comment 3 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-01-21 02:35:35 UTC 
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Status: Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: Concurred with reporter's comments, but went much further.
Comment 4 contributor 2011-01-21 02:36:19 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r5797.
Check-in comment: Clarify the 'escaping a string' algorithm by expanding it into a full explanation.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5796&to=5797
Comment 5 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:14:52 UTC 
mass-move component to LC1