xml-dev - Re: Attribute normalisation and character entities

[Arjun Ray <aray@q2.net>]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, I wrote:
> On 24 Jan 2000, Richard Tobin wrote:
> 
> > Section 3.3.3 [...]
> > However the Oasis test suite [...]
> > 
> > Which is correct?
> 
> If the intent is to do it the SGML way, then 3.3.3 is correct. [...]
> 
> The SGML gotcha here has to do with the 'SEPCHAR' category.  

s/SEPCHAR/SPACE/g

Sorry about that.

Perhaps it's worth pointing out that a numeric character reference is
the only way to have the literal character in a normalized attribute
value, since internal CDATA entities are not allowed.  So, under the
Oasis interpretation, one could never have end-of-lines in CDATA
attribute values.  I'm not sure that's reasonable.

OTOH, if these literals do sneak through the whitespace rules, what
about the further tokenization for non-CDATA attributes?  The SGML
rules scream "Error!!", but I'm not sure that's reasonable either.


Arjun


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