Re: [Ocamlnet-devel] attributes without values

[Ashish A. <aga...@gm...>]

The HTML5 reference [1] states that attribute values can be omitted, and
that this is equivalent to giving the empty string as the value. I can't
seem to find the rules in the HTML4 spec [2]. Does Nethtml allow specifying
which version of HTML is being parsed/printed? If the spec has changed, I'm
not sure how you want to handle the conflict.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/syntax.html#attributes-0
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/



On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Gerd Stolpmann <in...@ge...>wrote:

> The parser does so because the HTML-4 standard (don't know whether
> HTML-5 changed this) explicitly specifies that a value-less attribute
> must be handled like this.
>
> Maybe that should be configurable. The spec could go into the dtd, and
> it would just include all standard cases, so that attributes outside the
> standard are not affected.
>
> Gerd
>
> Am Freitag, den 02.05.2014, 17:06 -0400 schrieb Ashish Agarwal:
> > Html like "<div data-id></div>" gets parsed as:
> >
> > Nethtml.Element ("div", [("data-id", "data-id")], [])
> >
> >
> > The value is set to the attribute name, which seems wrong. The correct
> > solution would be to change the type of an element so that values are
> > `string option`, but I'm guessing that's infeasible. Alternatively,
> > the parser should set the value to the empty string.
> >
> >
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