Re: '

I believe double quotes are mandatory for XML and, hence, XHTML.  I
understand that there are people who write HTML with attributes such
as...

id=blah
or
id='blah'

I would argue that both should be changed to the following whether it is
XML, XHTML, HTML, or any *ML...

id="blah" 

I'm not sure how enforceable this is, though?  Would it break some
peoples existing markup?  Maybe, but if we were just strict about
it, and stated this fact in the Readme file, I think it would make things
be easier all around.


Jake

At 06:36 PM 4/7/2003 +0200, you wrote:
> On Monday 07 April 2003 18:21,
> Jacob Kjome wrote:
> > Actually, double quotes are at issue they are used to enclose
> attribute
> > values.  I never said that double quotes shouldn't be escaped;
> they
> > absolutely should!  Single quotes don't have the same issues
> that double
> > quotes do.  How would leaving single quotes alone but escaping
> double
> > quotes break anything?
>
> I may misremember, but I think there's an option in XMLC to switch
> between 
> single and double quotes for quoting attribute values (both are legal),
> and 
> if you're using single quotes for attribute values, you get problems when
> not 
> escaping them.
>
> That said, its probably sensible to escape only the
> "problematic" quotes (i.e. 
> the ones that are used for quoting attributes on that particular output)
> and 
> leave the other variety unescaped...
>
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