[giow] (0) Make boolean attributes reflect true to the empty string, …

…not the attribute name. Fixing http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9470 git-svn-id: http://svn.whatwg.org/webapps@5022 340c8d12-0b0e-0410-8428-c7bf67bfef74
whatwg · Apr 13, 2010 · ff39585 · ff39585
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diff --git a/complete.html b/complete.html
@@ -6448,8 +6448,9 @@ <h4 id=reflecting-content-attributes-in-idl-attributes><span class=secno>2.7.1 <
   attribute, then on getting the IDL attribute must return true if the
   content attribute is set, and false if it is absent. On setting, the
   content attribute must be removed if the IDL attribute is set to
-  false, and must be set to have the same value as its name if the IDL
-  attribute is set to true. (This corresponds to the rules for <a href=#boolean-attribute title="boolean attribute">boolean content attributes</a>.)</p>
+  false, and must be set to the empty string if the IDL attribute is
+  set to true. (This corresponds to the rules for <a href=#boolean-attribute title="boolean
+  attribute">boolean content attributes</a>.)</p>
 
   <p>If a reflecting IDL attribute is a signed integer type
   (<code>long</code>) then, on getting, the content attribute must be

diff --git a/index b/index
@@ -6346,8 +6346,9 @@ a.setAttribute('href', 'http://example.com/'); // change the content attribute d
   attribute, then on getting the IDL attribute must return true if the
   content attribute is set, and false if it is absent. On setting, the
   content attribute must be removed if the IDL attribute is set to
-  false, and must be set to have the same value as its name if the IDL
-  attribute is set to true. (This corresponds to the rules for <a href=#boolean-attribute title="boolean attribute">boolean content attributes</a>.)</p>
+  false, and must be set to the empty string if the IDL attribute is
+  set to true. (This corresponds to the rules for <a href=#boolean-attribute title="boolean
+  attribute">boolean content attributes</a>.)</p>
 
   <p>If a reflecting IDL attribute is a signed integer type
   (<code>long</code>) then, on getting, the content attribute must be

diff --git a/source b/source
@@ -6035,9 +6035,9 @@ a.setAttribute('href', 'http://example.com/'); // change the content attribute d
   attribute, then on getting the IDL attribute must return true if the
   content attribute is set, and false if it is absent. On setting, the
   content attribute must be removed if the IDL attribute is set to
-  false, and must be set to have the same value as its name if the IDL
-  attribute is set to true. (This corresponds to the rules for <span
-  title="boolean attribute">boolean content attributes</span>.)</p>
+  false, and must be set to the empty string if the IDL attribute is
+  set to true. (This corresponds to the rules for <span title="boolean
+  attribute">boolean content attributes</span>.)</p>
 
   <p>If a reflecting IDL attribute is a signed integer type
   (<code>long</code>) then, on getting, the content attribute must be