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Bug 16222 - editorial: "surrounds ... by''
Summary: editorial: "surrounds ... by''
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML/XHTML Compatibility Authoring Guide (ed: Eliot Graff) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Eliot Graff
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
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Reported: 2012-03-03 17:43 UTC by Daniel Barclay
Modified: 2012-03-14 00:25 UTC (History)
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Description Daniel Barclay 2012-03-03 17:43:45 UTC 
Section 7 says:

  Polyglot markup surrounds attribute values by either single quotation marks 
  or by double quotation marks. 

Those two occurrences of "by" need to be "with" (values can be surrounded
by quotation marks, or markup can surround value with quotation marks, but
markup can't surround them by quotation marks; that doesn't make sense
grammatically (mixing passive and active voice, or something like that)).
Comment 1 Eliot Graff 2012-03-14 00:25:29 UTC 
Fixed in the editors draft. Thanks!