Re: [xml-dev] interpreting W3C C14N Rec.

[Steve Newcomb <srn@coolheads.com>]

Good advice.  Thanks, Lee!

(I surmise that the problem I found in Firefox is that an underpowered 
regexp is used in that <meta> prediscovery process, but I need to follow 
your advice to verify that.)

On 10/25/2015 05:22 PM, Liam Quin wrote:
> On 2015-10-26 05:57, Steve Newcomb wrote:
> [...]
> >  FYI: The reason I got into the XML canonicalization document is that
> > I was surprised to discover that Firefox dislikes carriage-returns and
> > linefeeds between attribute specs in start tags in HTML, at least in
> > that it can't trivially pre-discover certain info in certain <meta>
> > elements so represented.
> The way to answer this for HTML documents is to look at the HTML 5 spec;
> if it's not answered there, file a bug against HTML 5.1. If it is 
> answered,
> file a bug if browsers don't follow what it says.
>
> For the XML syntax of HTML 5, the XML Rec (1.0 5e I think, but check 
> the references in HTL 5) would be an appropriate reference.
>
> Within attribute values themselves, of course, attribute value 
> normalization applies when parsing XML.
>
> Liam