formhelper & label produces incorrect output?

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I'm looking at

\InstantRails-2.0-win\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\actionpack-2.3.5\lib\action_view\helpers\form_helper.rb

at line 509. The comment reads:

      # label(:post, :title, "A short title")       # # => <label for="post_title">A short title</label>

When I pass       <label for="post_title">A short title</label> through an HTML validator (e.g. Validation Results - W3C Markup Validator )... the message I get is

- - - - value of attribute "for" must be a single token

This attribute can not take a space-separated list of words as a value, but only one word ("token"). This may also be caused by the use of a space for the value of an attribute which does not permit it. - - - -

What I think the validator is looking for is this     <label for=post_title>A short title</label> instead of     <label for="post_title">A short title</label>

Am I interpreting this correctly?

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No, I think you've somehow confused the validator. I was able to get the error message you described, but only by changing the underscore to a space. The version without attributes is also very wrong if you're using an XHMTML doctype.

--Matt Jones