Re: missing quote mark for attribute value

On 31 Oct 2006 at 10:34, Florian Vielhauer said:

> Hello all,
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> I'm using HTMLValidator plugin for Firefox 2.0 to check the output of my
> asp.net website.
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> I'm getting the error "missing quote mark for attribute value".
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> The error always occurs when I have something like that on my page:
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> <span id="mySpan" xml="<><><><><><>"></span>
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> When I change the line into
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> <span id="mySpan" xml="<><><><><>"></span>
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> I don't get the error any more. 
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> If <>-brackets are not allowed in property attributes why do I get an
> error in case 1 and no error in case 2? Isn't that a bit odd?

Most likely due to a heuristic.

Tidy attempts to detect missing quotes on attributes. One way is to check 
for things that are apparently within quotes but "probably" should be 
outside them. Looking for <> is quite likely to be one of the checks 
applied, and in that case an upper limit on the number of them allowed 
before issuing a missing-quotes message is not unreasonable.

Does replacing the syntactically incorrect "<>" with "&lt;&gt;" help? (It 
does when I run stand-alone Tidy).