Posted by David Dorward on 06/11/06 11:34

Jim Higson wrote:

> I just noticed that not separating attributes by spaces is picked up by
> some validators/checkers and not others.

> For example, this code:
>
> <a title="a link"href="http://example.com">this is a link</a>
>
> Flags no errors with the W3C checker

Which does warn that it has some limitations when dealing with XML:

http://openjade.sourceforge.net/doc/xml.htm

"XML does not allow a parameter separator that is adjacent to a delimiter to
be omitted."

> This is in an XHTML document (although I'd be interested to see what the
> rules are for HTML 4 as well).

I believe it is allowed in HTML.

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