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
>
