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- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- To: Kay Michael <Michael.Kay@icl.com>
- Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 11:15:09 -0400
Kay Michael wrote:
> E62, which requires the separator in Names and NMTOKENS to be a single space
> rather than any sequence of whitespace characters, looks like a rather major
> incompatibility to me!
The change is in fact a subtle one: it affects only the *value* of an attribute,
which is what you have after the attribute-normalization process described
in clause 3.3.3 is performed. (Note that 3.3.3 has been clarified by E24 and E61.)
Consequently, although
<element magic="foo
bar"/>
where "magic" is of type ENTITIES, IDREFS, or NMTOKENS, will still work (and return
a value of "foo bar"), under E62 it is invalid to say:
<element magic="foo 			bar"/>
Of course it is still well-formed.
Does anyone seriously think that the second example ought to be valid?
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