char attribute

Is the char attribute supported? Or more importantly can it?

The spec shows this as a viable character: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/tables.html#adef-char and http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/index/attributes.html

Seems Firefox doesn't much like it...I get a "XML Parsing Error: junk after document element"

Used defaults and its strips the attribute. Just wanted to know if its worth trying to support.

<table char="x">
    <colgroup char="x">
        <col char="x" />
    </colgroup>
    <tfoot char="x">
        <tr>
            <td>footer</td>
        </tr>
    </tfoot>
    <thead char="x">
        <tr>
            <th>header</th>
        </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody char="x">
        <tr char="x">
            <td char="x">xx char set xx</td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>

When I first implemented this code several years ago, no browsers implemented the char attribute, so I chose not to support in HTML Purifier. Has this changed?

Understood, just kinda silly that the "char=" attribute is still in the spec, yet not supported by the browsers. Is "char=" a reserved keyword or something because I get XML errors.

Not an issue, I just happened to notice that while doing an audit.

Thanks.

Not that I know of? What was the error?

"XML Parsing Error: junk after document element" when you get an XML syntax error. Can anyone confirm?

I'm working on supporting deprecated tags/attributes and that came up. I'll remove support for it.

Hmm, that kind of sounds like a different kind of error. Do you have the full XML?

Actually I don't think its an issue because the DocType I used was XHTML 1.0 Strict, which of course would complain trying to use the "char=" attribute. attrbiute? Right?

Here was what I was testing with: http://bit.ly/gZwsxe

I also played around with the HTML.Allowed values like this:

table[char]
colgroup[char]
col[char]
thead[char]
tr[char]
td[char]
tfoot[char]

and kept getting XTML errors like (table summary, and td "abbr" errors). This doesn't seem to have anything to do with HtmlPurifier just browser (Firefox 3.6.16).

Ah, It looks like the error messages PHP are emitting aren't playing nicely with the XML.

D'oh...I should had viewed source and realized that. My bad.

According to the spec http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/dtd.html#cellhalign

it's still there too...I'll play around with it and let you know if its supported.