Bug 9280

Summary: Quirksmode: Trailing ]> from internal DTD subset is rendered as body text
Product: WebKit Reporter: Adele Peterson <adele>
Component: DOMAssignee: Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX    
Severity: Normal CC: abarth, ap, bugs-webkit, chortos, fhp.mail, hyatt, ian
Priority: P2    
Version: 420+   
Hardware: PC   
OS: OS X 10.4   
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 9610    
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html test case none

Adele Peterson
Reported 2006-06-02 15:10:15 PDT
http://www.quirksmode.org/bugreports/archives/safari/index.html "When creating custom DTDs like the one below, all browsers except Opera see the end of the ATTLIST as the end of the DOCTYPE. The result is that they print "]>" on the screen. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd" [ <!ATTLIST p behavior CDATA #IMPLIED> ]> Test page. http://www.quirksmode.org/oddsandends/dtd.html Workaround is not included Reported by ppk."
Attachments
html test case (298 bytes, text/html)
2006-07-08 10:41 PDT, Alexey Proskuryakov 		no flags
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Joost de Valk (AlthA)
Comment 1 2006-06-24 14:17:58 PDT
Moving this into component XML, though i'm not quite sure it's the correct one..
Joost de Valk (AlthA)
Comment 2 2006-06-24 14:27:42 PDT
Changing to correct component.
Alexey Proskuryakov
Comment 3 2006-07-08 10:41:17 PDT
Created attachment 9274 [details] html test case The original test case is served as text/html, but has a DTD based on XHTML 1.0 Transitional, which has caused some concerns about its correctness (see the comments at quirksmode.org). The attached test case has a DTD based on HTML 4.01 Strict; it exposes the same behavior - the validator accepts it (and parses as expected, which can be seen in its outline view), while major browsers don't. I am not sure whether this document really is valid HTML - its DTD is not HTML 4.01 Strict, since it has an internal subset. HTML 4.01 explicitly lists the three DTDs used in HTML documents, and this is not one of them. I have found discussions of this issue from as early as 1995 <http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-html.1995q2/0379.html>, but nothing authoritative enough to ignore the results of the W3C validator. Mozilla documentation seems to imply that they do handle internal subsets in HTML <http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Mozilla's_DOCTYPE_sniffing>, but I'm not seeing this.
Oleg Oshmyan
Comment 4 2009-02-01 08:58:43 PST
*** Bug 23673 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Oleg Oshmyan
Comment 5 2009-02-01 09:06:21 PST
This bug is still there. Both HTML and XHTML are affected. Besides, I think a better summary would be what I wrote in my bug report (before finding this one): Trailing ]> from internal DTD subset is rendered as body text
Alexey Proskuryakov
Comment 6 2009-02-01 10:00:37 PST
Good suggestion, renaming. We need to check what HTML5 has to say about this issue. Note however that I cannot reproduce this with XHTML (and the document at URL given in bug 23673 is plain HTML, see <http://hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml> for more detail).
Oleg Oshmyan
Comment 7 2009-02-01 10:32:10 PST
My fault. Sorry about that, should be fixed now. Actually... I have to admit that the bug indeed does not appear when the page is XHTML.
Adam Barth
Comment 8 2010-09-20 00:35:49 PDT
We're parsing this correct w.r.t. HTML5.
Alexey Proskuryakov
Comment 9 2012-08-15 19:20:15 PDT
*** Bug 94149 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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