Posted by David Dorward on 09/19/07 13:14

On Sep 19, 1:30 pm, SDG <giuffsa...@hotmail.it> wrote:
> Hi, I'm writing a web scraper to extract text from a web page, and I
> need to know what characters can be present inside an attribute of a
> tag.

Any, although some attributes have limits on what is allowed, although
those limits aren't usually expressed by the DTD (e.g. the width
attribute takes an integer or an integer followed by a percentage
sign), and other characters (& for example) have special meaning.

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David Dorward
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