46805 - minimized attributes not supported

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect, P3)

Description

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

DESCRIPTION:  SGML attribute minimization does not work correctly in most cases.
 I believe this is a conformance requirement of HTML (via SGML), so I'm filing
it as a bug.  I don't think it's a priority right now, though.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:
 * load attached testcase

ACTUAL RESULTS:
 * halves are different

EXPECTED RESULTS:
 * the two halves should be identical

DOES NOT WORK CORRECTLY ON:
 * Linux, mozilla, 2000-07-27 18:00 PDT optimized build

Comment 1

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Attachment: testcase

Comment 2

[harishd]

FUTURE candidate.

Comment 3

[rickg]

Harish: Isn't this a forms issue? Is the parser doing anything wrong here?

Comment 4

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

The content models produced by the two halves of the testcase should be
identical.

Comment 5

[bsharma]

updated qa contact.

Comment 6

[harishd]

This bug has been marked "future" because the original netscape engineer working 
on this is over-burdened. If you feel this is an error, that you or another 
known resource will be working on this bug,or if it blocks your work in some way 
-- please attach your concern to the bug for reconsideration. 

Comment 7

[Eli Friedman]

Can you point to where this is allowed? (I think attribute minimization is where
<option selected> is the same as <option selected="selected">; correct me if I'm
wrong)

If you cannot show where your format is stated to be allowed, this is invalid.

Comment 8

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Attribute minimization is more general that just what is described in
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/intro/sgmltut.html#h-3.3.4.2 , which is rather clear,
however, that minimization allows the attribute value alone to be present
instead of the name and value.  See ISO 8879:1986 for more details (or
Goldfarb's annotated version, The SGML Handbook).  (I don't have access to a
copy right now, so I can't give you the reference.)  Note also that
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/tables.html#h-11.3.1 is technically
noncompliant with SGML.

However, the following also describe attribute minimization in more detail:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/2000Mar/0038.html
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:r9ZAkDGopoEC:www.personal.u-net.com/~sgml/contexts.doc

Comment 9

[John Drinkwater (:beta)]

Is this bug really assigned still?

Comment 10

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

Tracking HTML5 rather than SGML now.