[e] (0) Mention what the special characters are.

Fixing http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=7979 git-svn-id: http://svn.whatwg.org/webapps@4260 340c8d12-0b0e-0410-8428-c7bf67bfef74
whatwg · Oct 21, 2009 · e9b6040 · e9b6040
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@@ -1675,11 +1675,10 @@ <h3 id=a-quick-introduction-to-html><span class=secno>1.8 </span>A quick introdu
   <pre>&lt;a href="demo.html"&gt;simple&lt;/a&gt;</pre>
 
   <p><a href=#syntax-attributes title=syntax-attributes>Attributes</a> are placed
-  inside the start tag, and consist of a <a href=#syntax-attribute-name title=syntax-attribute-name>name</a> and a <a href=#syntax-attribute-value title=syntax-attribute-value>value</a>, separated by an "<code title="">=</code>" character. The attribute value can be left <a href=#unquoted>unquoted</a> if it doesn't contain any special
-  characters. Otherwise, it has to be quoted using either single or
-  double quotes. The value, along with the "<code title="">=</code>"
-  character, can be omitted altogether if the value is the empty
-  string.</p>
+  inside the start tag, and consist of a <a href=#syntax-attribute-name title=syntax-attribute-name>name</a> and a <a href=#syntax-attribute-value title=syntax-attribute-value>value</a>, separated by an "<code title="">=</code>" character. The attribute value can be left <a href=#unquoted>unquoted</a> if it doesn't contain any of <code title="">"</code> <code title="">'</code> <code title="">`</code>
+  <code title="">=</code> <code title="">&lt;</code> or <code title="">&gt;</code>. Otherwise, it has to be quoted using either
+  single or double quotes. The value, along with the "<code title="">=</code>" character, can be omitted altogether if the value
+  is the empty string.</p>
 
   <pre>&lt;!-- empty attributes --&gt;
 &lt;input name=address disabled&gt;

diff --git a/index b/index
@@ -1505,11 +1505,10 @@
   <pre>&lt;a href="demo.html"&gt;simple&lt;/a&gt;</pre>
 
   <p><a href=#syntax-attributes title=syntax-attributes>Attributes</a> are placed
-  inside the start tag, and consist of a <a href=#syntax-attribute-name title=syntax-attribute-name>name</a> and a <a href=#syntax-attribute-value title=syntax-attribute-value>value</a>, separated by an "<code title="">=</code>" character. The attribute value can be left <a href=#unquoted>unquoted</a> if it doesn't contain any special
-  characters. Otherwise, it has to be quoted using either single or
-  double quotes. The value, along with the "<code title="">=</code>"
-  character, can be omitted altogether if the value is the empty
-  string.</p>
+  inside the start tag, and consist of a <a href=#syntax-attribute-name title=syntax-attribute-name>name</a> and a <a href=#syntax-attribute-value title=syntax-attribute-value>value</a>, separated by an "<code title="">=</code>" character. The attribute value can be left <a href=#unquoted>unquoted</a> if it doesn't contain any of <code title="">"</code> <code title="">'</code> <code title="">`</code>
+  <code title="">=</code> <code title="">&lt;</code> or <code title="">&gt;</code>. Otherwise, it has to be quoted using either
+  single or double quotes. The value, along with the "<code title="">=</code>" character, can be omitted altogether if the value
+  is the empty string.</p>
 
   <pre>&lt;!-- empty attributes --&gt;
 &lt;input name=address disabled&gt;

diff --git a/source b/source
@@ -469,11 +469,13 @@
   title="syntax-attribute-name">name</span> and a <span
   title="syntax-attribute-value">value</span>, separated by an "<code
   title="">=</code>" character. The attribute value can be left <a
-  href="#unquoted">unquoted</a> if it doesn't contain any special
-  characters. Otherwise, it has to be quoted using either single or
-  double quotes. The value, along with the "<code title="">=</code>"
-  character, can be omitted altogether if the value is the empty
-  string.</p>
+  href="#unquoted">unquoted</a> if it doesn't contain any of <code
+  title="">"</code> <code title="">'</code> <code title="">`</code>
+  <code title="">=</code> <code title="">&lt;</code> or <code
+  title="">&gt;</code>. Otherwise, it has to be quoted using either
+  single or double quotes. The value, along with the "<code
+  title="">=</code>" character, can be omitted altogether if the value
+  is the empty string.</p>
 
   <pre>&lt;!-- empty attributes -->
 &lt;input name=address disabled>