Re: [PHP] Re: sloppiness & stupidity

Ford, Mike wrote:
> On 17 June 2009 02:11, Shawn McKenzie advised:
> 
>> PJ wrote:
>>> I'm sorry, guys, but I am really getting po'd.
>>> The irresponsible sloppiness and stupidity is just getting to me.
>>> In my quest for a way to populate a multiple option select box I have
>>> run across so many errors that it's beyond belief... such nonsense as
>>> "select for select or select="select" ( think this is right, but then
>>> who knows?)
>> I know.  So does the HTML recommendation which states that it is a
>> boolean attribute, meaning it is stated (on/boolean 1) or it isn't
>> (off/boolean 0) in the HTML context.  So while other variations may
> work,
>> this is correct: 
>>
>> For multiple select:
>> <SELECT multiple name="component-select">
>>
>> --or--
>>
>> For single select:
>> <SELECT name="component-select">
> 
> This is very true -- but XHTML requires *all* attributes to have a
> value, so an XHTML conformant page will use <select multiple="multiple"
> name="selector"> (or something similar such as <select multiple="yes"
> name="selector">). The only inconsistency here is that different people
> have chosen to validate against different standards.

Any validator should validate against the declared DTD which should 
define the accepted values.