"Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Duncan Booth wrote:
>> > For HTML attributes that don't have an explicit value (such as the
>> > SELECTED attribute in OPTION) the keyword argument to the function must
>> > have the value True
>> A better way to do this (given that HTML defines exactly which attributes
>> do not take a value) is to use the attribute name and simply generate the
>> attribute only if the value is non-false.
> footnote: strictly speaking, minimized attributes have values but no names;
> it's up to the parser to determine what attribute you're setting when you
> specify the value.
> (for example, in <img ismap>, "ismap" is the value, not the attribute name.
> it's up to the parser to figure out (from the DTD) that this value can only
> be used by the "ismap" attribute, and interpret it as <img ismap=ismap>)
But this isn't necessarilly true: <img alt=ismap> is perfectly legal.
I would say that ismap only has one valid value - "ismap", so the
parser knows that it should interepret a bare "ismap" as ismap=ismap,
which gets you the same behavior in the end.
<mike
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