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

Follow-up: As nearly as I can tell, the W3C Recommended syntax of start 
tags in all versions of HTML is such that it's OK for SPACE+ to appear 
before, after, and between attribute value specifications.  And SPACE 
does include LFs and CRs.

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
>