164685 - Don't add ="" to custom boolean attributes

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Serializers, defect)

Description

[Chris Weaver]

We use Maxum's NetCloak Pro [ http://www.maxum.com/NetCloak/ ] on our webserver
(G4 tower, OS X Server Unlimited running Apache).
To call up a server-side macro from NetCloak's macro file, one uses a <macro>
tag as such:
	<macro stylesheet>

In most other editors I use or have tried (DreamWeaver, PageSpinner, GoLive,
Freeway) these <macro> tags are ignored, since they are interpreted server-side.
In Mozilla's Composer, however, these tags (from a standard template we
distribute widely) are converted as below:
	<macro stylesheet=""></macro>

Obviously, NetCloak doesn't like this syntax and fails to use the <macro>
correctly. 
Is there any way to turn off Mozilla's syntax checking/rearrangement, per tag?
Thanks.

Comment 1

[Greg K.]

Confirmed using FizzillaCFM/1.1-final on 10.1.5. Reassigning to Editor: Core.

Comment 2

[Greg K.]

Attachment: Testcase

Composer adds ="" to the stylesheet boolean attribute in this testcase.

Comment 3

[kinmoz]

glazman, are we doing this internally? Or is this happening in the serializer?

Comment 4

[Daniel Glazman (:glazou) (not active in Mozilla any more)]

The parser handles boolean attributes in shorthand form only in the html
namespace for the time being. Fixing this bug would require adding to the parser
the ability to declare an attribute as boolean whatever is namespace, and the
implementation boolean attributes. Since boolean attributes in shorthand form
don't exist in XML, and since user-defined elements/attributes are not supposed
to be in a document at browsing time, I am not sure we're going to fix this...

Kin, what do you think ?

Comment 5

[Kathleen :Brade]

I thought the appropriate thing to output for booleans was something like
foo="foo"; this sounds like a duplicate bug but perhaps I misunderstand?

Comment 6

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The bug assignee is inactive on Bugzilla, so the assignee is being reset.

Comment 7

[Masayuki Nakano [:masayuki] (he/him)(JST, +0900)]

I think that it's no problem to add ="", but I don't find any standards about serialization of boolean attributes. Anyway, this must be handled by serializer's staff.