Re: [xml] Patch for boolean attributes in HTML output mode / libxml HTML dump code

[Marc Liyanage <mliyanage futurelab ch>]

Hi there again,

I was wondering if someone could provide some feedback if our patch, 
mentioned in my previous post below, will be accepted into the main 
distribution, who decides this?

Cheers

-Marc



On Mittwoch, August 7, 2002, at 10:48  Uhr, Marc Liyanage wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I was wondering if you would accept the attached small patch for 
> libxml2 into the main distribution. This will probably influence if we 
> will use it (the patch, not libxml) ourselves in our current project.
>
> What it does is it causes the HTML output dump code to convert boolean 
> HTML attributes like <option selected="selected"> to their minimized 
> form, like <option selected>. This is recommended practice as per the 
> XSLT 1.0 spec in section 16.2, "HTML Output Method":
>
>    "The html output method should output boolean
>    attributes (that is attributes with only a single
>    allowed value that is equal to the name of the
>    attribute) in minimized form."
>
> We are experiencing trouble with some Mozilla browsers because the 
> HTML output generated by libxslt/libxml2 does not do this by default. 
> The patch fixes it but we want to make sure that we will not have to 
> maintain a separate patch for libxml, so it would be nice to hear from 
> you if you would integrate it.
>
>
>
> <libxml2-2.4.23-html-boolean-futurelab.ch.patch>


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