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Bug 12783 - "character tokens that are not one of U+0009 CHARACTER TABULATION, U+000A LINE FEED (LF), U+000C FORM FEED (FF), U+000D CARRIAGE RETURN (CR), or U+0020 SPACE": you should use the "space characters" definition here
Summary: "character tokens that are not one of U+0009 CHARACTER TABULATION, U+000A LIN...
Status: RESOLVED 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: 2011-05-25 16:44 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-08-09 22:29 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-05-25 16:44:55 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/tokenization.html
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#parsing-main-intabletext

Comment:
"character tokens that are not one of U+0009 CHARACTER TABULATION, U+000A LINE
FEED (LF), U+000C FORM FEED (FF), U+000D CARRIAGE RETURN (CR), or U+0020
SPACE": you should use the "space characters" definition here

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Comment 1 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:01:10 UTC 
mass-moved component to LC1
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-08-09 22:28:02 UTC 
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Status: Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: Concurred with reporter's comments.

(I'm not 100% sure this is a good idea. The rest of the tokeniser and tree construction sections list all their characters explicitly. But ok.)
Comment 3 contributor 2011-08-09 22:29:07 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r6393.
Check-in comment: reuse definition instead of being verbose
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6392&to=6393