hixie: Change 'unless' to 'except where' in cases where that reduces ambiguity. (whatwg r4006)

hixie: Change 'unless' to 'except where' in cases where that reduces
ambiguity. (whatwg r4006)

http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/spec/Overview.html?r1=1.3167&r2=1.3168&f=h
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=4005&to=4006

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--- Overview.html 27 Sep 2009 01:53:14 -0000 1.3167
+++ Overview.html 27 Sep 2009 09:09:20 -0000 1.3168
@@ -1621,8 +1621,8 @@
   the purposes of the DOM and CSS. The term "<dfn id="html-elements">HTML
   elements</dfn>", when used in this specification, refers to any
   element in that namespace, and thus refers to both HTML and XHTML
-  elements.<p>Unless otherwise stated, all elements defined or mentioned in
-  this specification are in the
+  elements.<p>Except where otherwise stated, all elements defined or mentioned
+  in this specification are in the
   <code>http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml</code> namespace, and all
   attributes defined or mentioned in this specification have no
   namespace.<p>Attribute names are said to be <dfn id="xml-compatible">XML-compatible</dfn> if they
@@ -2016,14 +2016,14 @@
     required for conforming IDL fragments, as described in the Web IDL
     specification. <a href="#refsWEBIDL">[WEBIDL]</a></p>
 
-    <p id="float-nan">Unless otherwise specified, if an IDL attribute
-    that is a floating point number type (<code title="">float</code>)
-    is assigned an Infinity or Not-a-Number (NaN) value, a
-    <code><a href="#not_supported_err">NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR</a></code> exception must be raised.</p>
+    <p id="float-nan">Except where otherwise specified, if an IDL
+    attribute that is a floating point number type (<code title="">float</code>) is assigned an Infinity or Not-a-Number
+    (NaN) value, a <code><a href="#not_supported_err">NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR</a></code> exception must be
+    raised.</p>
 
-    <p>Unless otherwise specified, if a method with an argument that
-    is a floating point number type (<code title="">float</code>) is
-    passed an Infinity or Not-a-Number (NaN) value, a
+    <p>Except where otherwise specified, if a method with an argument
+    that is a floating point number type (<code title="">float</code>)
+    is passed an Infinity or Not-a-Number (NaN) value, a
     <code><a href="#not_supported_err">NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR</a></code> exception must be raised.</p>
 
    </dd>
@@ -6902,9 +6902,9 @@
    <li><code title="attr-style"><a href="#the-style-attribute">style</a></code></li>
    <li><code title="attr-tabindex"><a href="#attr-tabindex">tabindex</a></code></li>
    <li><code title="attr-title"><a href="#the-title-attribute">title</a></code></li>
-  </ul><hr><p>Unless otherwise specified, the following <a href="#event-handler-content-attributes">event handler
-  content attributes</a> may be specified on any <a href="#html-elements" title="HTML
-  elements">HTML element</a>:<ul class="brief"><li><code title="handler-onabort"><a href="#handler-onabort">onabort</a></code></li>
+  </ul><hr><p>The following <a href="#event-handler-content-attributes">event handler content attributes</a> may
+  be specified on any <a href="#html-elements" title="HTML elements">HTML
+  element</a>:<ul class="brief"><li><code title="handler-onabort"><a href="#handler-onabort">onabort</a></code></li>
    <li><code title="handler-onblur"><a href="#handler-onblur">onblur</a></code>*</li>
    <li><code title="handler-oncanplay"><a href="#handler-oncanplay">oncanplay</a></code></li>
    <li><code title="handler-oncanplaythrough"><a href="#handler-oncanplaythrough">oncanplaythrough</a></code></li>
@@ -18892,9 +18892,9 @@
   resource</dfn> is used to refer to the complete set of media data,
   e.g. the complete video file, or complete audio file.<div class="impl">
 
-  <p>Unless otherwise specified, the <a href="#task-source">task source</a> for all
-  the tasks <a href="#queue-a-task" title="queue a task">queued</a> in this section
-  and its subsections is the <dfn id="media-element-event-task-source">media element event task
+  <p>Except where otherwise specified, the <a href="#task-source">task source</a>
+  for all the tasks <a href="#queue-a-task" title="queue a task">queued</a> in this
+  section and its subsections is the <dfn id="media-element-event-task-source">media element event task
   source</dfn>.</p>
 
   </div><h5 id="error-codes"><span class="secno">4.8.10.1 </span>Error codes</h5><dl class="domintro"><dt><var title="">media</var> . <code title="dom-media-error"><a href="#dom-media-error">error</a></code></dt>
@@ -21560,9 +21560,9 @@
   attribute must return the <code><a href="#the-canvas-element">canvas</a></code> element that the
   context paints on.</p>
 
-  <p>Unless otherwise stated, for the 2D context interface, any method
-  call with a numeric argument whose value is infinite or a NaN value
-  must be ignored.</p>
+  <p>Except where otherwise specified, for the 2D context interface,
+  any method call with a numeric argument whose value is infinite or a
+  NaN value must be ignored.</p>
 
   <!--
    Philip Taylor wrote:
@@ -27440,7 +27440,7 @@
   element's <dfn id="labeled-control">labeled control</dfn></span>, either using <code title="attr-label-for"><a href="#attr-label-for">for</a></code> attribute, or by putting the form
   control inside the <code><a href="#the-label-element">label</a></code> element itself.<div class="impl">
 
-  <p>Unless otherwise specified by the following rules, a
+  <p>Except where otherwise specified by the following rules, a
   <code><a href="#the-label-element">label</a></code> element has no <a href="#labeled-control">labeled control</a>.</p>
 
   </div><p>The <dfn id="attr-label-for" title="attr-label-for"><code>for</code></dfn> attribute
@@ -28757,10 +28757,11 @@
   <a href="#value-sanitization-algorithm">value sanitization algorithm</a>, if the <code title="attr-input-type"><a href="#attr-input-type">type</a></code> attribute's current state
   defines one.</p>
 
-  <p>Each <code><a href="#the-input-element">input</a></code> element is either <dfn id="concept-input-mutable" title="concept-input-mutable"><i>mutable</i></dfn> or <dfn id="concept-input-immutable" title="concept-input-immutable"><i>immutable</i></dfn>. Unless
-  otherwise specified, an <code><a href="#the-input-element">input</a></code> element is always <i title="concept-input-mutable"><a href="#concept-input-mutable">mutable</a></i>. Unless otherwise
-  specified, the user agent should not allow the user to modify the
-  element's <a href="#concept-fe-value" title="concept-fe-value">value</a> or <a href="#concept-fe-checked" title="concept-fe-checked">checkedness</a>.</p>
+  <p>Each <code><a href="#the-input-element">input</a></code> element is either <dfn id="concept-input-mutable" title="concept-input-mutable"><i>mutable</i></dfn> or <dfn id="concept-input-immutable" title="concept-input-immutable"><i>immutable</i></dfn>. Except where
+  otherwise specified, an <code><a href="#the-input-element">input</a></code> element is always <i title="concept-input-mutable"><a href="#concept-input-mutable">mutable</a></i>. Similarly, except where
+  otherwise specified, the user agent should not allow the user to
+  modify the element's <a href="#concept-fe-value" title="concept-fe-value">value</a> or
+  <a href="#concept-fe-checked" title="concept-fe-checked">checkedness</a>.</p>
 
   <p>When an <code><a href="#the-input-element">input</a></code> element is <a href="#concept-fe-disabled" title="concept-fe-disabled">disabled</a>, it is <i title="concept-input-immutable"><a href="#concept-input-immutable">immutable</a></i>.</p>
 
@@ -32612,8 +32613,8 @@
   of an <code><a href="#the-option-element">option</a></code> element is a boolean state, initially
   false. If the element is <a href="#concept-option-disabled" title="concept-option-disabled">disabled</a>, then the element's
   <a href="#concept-option-selectedness" title="concept-option-selectedness">selectedness</a> is
-  always false and cannot be set to true. Unless otherwise specified,
-  when the element is created, its <a href="#concept-option-selectedness" title="concept-option-selectedness">selectedness</a> must be set
+  always false and cannot be set to true. Except where otherwise
+  specified, when the element is created, its <a href="#concept-option-selectedness" title="concept-option-selectedness">selectedness</a> must be set
   to true if the element has a <code title="attr-option-selected"><a href="#attr-option-selected">selected</a></code> attribute. Whenever an
   <code><a href="#the-option-element">option</a></code> element's <code title="attr-option-selected"><a href="#attr-option-selected">selected</a></code> attribute is added, its
   <a href="#concept-option-selectedness" title="concept-option-selectedness">selectedness</a> must
@@ -33738,7 +33739,7 @@
 
   <p>A <a href="#category-listed" title="category-listed">listed form-associated
   element</a> is a <dfn id="candidate-for-constraint-validation">candidate for constraint validation</dfn>
-  unless a condition has <dfn id="barred-from-constraint-validation" title="barred from constraint
+  except when a condition has <dfn id="barred-from-constraint-validation" title="barred from constraint
   validation">barred the element from constraint
   validation</dfn>. (For example, an element is <a href="#barred-from-constraint-validation">barred from
   constraint validation</a> if it is an <code><a href="#the-output-element">output</a></code> or
@@ -39771,9 +39772,9 @@
     <code title="md-vcard-n-honorific-suffix"><a href="#md-vcard-n-honorific-suffix">honorific-suffix</a></code>
     properties.</p>
 
-    <p>Unless one of the conditions given below applies, exactly one
-    property with the name <code title="md-vcard-n"><a href="#md-vcard-n">n</a></code> must be
-    present within each <a href="#concept-item" title="concept-item">item</a> with
+    <p>Except when one of the conditions given below applies, exactly
+    one property with the name <code title="md-vcard-n"><a href="#md-vcard-n">n</a></code> must
+    be present within each <a href="#concept-item" title="concept-item">item</a> with
     the type <code title="md-vcard"><a href="#md-vcard">vcard</a></code>.</p>
 
     <p>If one of the following conditions does apply, then the <code title="md-vcard-n"><a href="#md-vcard-n">n</a></code> may be omitted:</p>
@@ -41588,9 +41589,9 @@
 
   <h3 id="converting-html-to-other-formats"><span class="secno">5.5 </span>Converting HTML to other formats</h3>
 
-  <p>In all these algorithms, unless otherwise stated, operations that
-  iterate over a series of elements (whether items, properties, or
-  otherwise) must do so in <a href="#tree-order">tree order</a>.</p>
+  <p>In all these algorithms, except where otherwise stated,
+  operations that iterate over a series of elements (whether items,
+  properties, or otherwise) must do so in <a href="#tree-order">tree order</a>.</p>
 
   <p>A generic API upon which the vocabulary-specific conversions
   defined below (vCard, iCalendar) can be built will need to provide
@@ -43054,7 +43055,7 @@
   </div><h2 id="browsers"><span class="secno">6 </span>Web browsers</h2><div class="impl">
 
   <p>This section describes features that apply most directly to Web
-  browsers. Having said that, unless specified elsewhere, the
+  browsers. Having said that, except where specified otherwise, the
   requirements defined in this section <em>do</em> apply to all user
   agents, whether they are Web browsers or not.</p>
 
@@ -43119,9 +43120,9 @@
   data mining tools are likely to never instantiate browsing
   contexts.<hr><p>A <a href="#browsing-context">browsing context</a> can have a <dfn id="creator-browsing-context">creator browsing
   context</dfn>, the <a href="#browsing-context">browsing context</a> that was
-  responsible for its creation. <span class="impl">Unless otherwise
-  specified, a <a href="#browsing-context">browsing context</a> has no <a href="#creator-browsing-context">creator
-  browsing context</a>.</span><p>If a <a href="#browsing-context">browsing context</a> <var title="">A</var> has a
+  responsible for its creation. <span class="impl">Except when
+  otherwise specified, a <a href="#browsing-context">browsing context</a> has no
+  <a href="#creator-browsing-context">creator browsing context</a>.</span><p>If a <a href="#browsing-context">browsing context</a> <var title="">A</var> has a
   <a href="#creator-browsing-context">creator browsing context</a>, then the
   <code>Document</code> that was the <a href="#active-document">active document</a> of
   that <a href="#creator-browsing-context">creator browsing context</a> at the time <var title="">A</var> was created is the <dfn id="creator-document">creator
@@ -43981,8 +43982,8 @@
   <code>Document</code> object in a <a href="#browsing-context">browsing
   context</a>. Some of the user interface elements represented by
   these objects might have no equivalent in some user agents; for
-  those user agents, unless otherwise specified, the object must act
-  as if it was present and visible (i.e. its <code title="dom-BarProp-visible"><a href="#dom-barprop-visible">visible</a></code> attribute must return
+  those user agents, except when otherwise specified, the object must
+  act as if it was present and visible (i.e. its <code title="dom-BarProp-visible"><a href="#dom-barprop-visible">visible</a></code> attribute must return
   true).</p>
 
   <dl><dt><dfn id="the-location-bar-barprop-object">The location bar <code>BarProp</code> object</dfn></dt>
@@ -44234,9 +44235,8 @@
      <dt>If a <code>Document</code> or image was returned by the
      <code>XMLHttpRequest</code> API</dt>
 
-     <dd>The <a href="#origin">origin</a> and <a href="#effective-script-origin">effective script
-     origin</a> are equal to the <span>XMLHttpRequest origin</span>
-     of the <code>XMLHttpRequest</code> object. <a href="#refsXHR">[XHR]</a></dd>
+     <dd>The <a href="#origin">origin</a> is equal to the <span>XMLHttpRequest
+     origin</span> of the <code>XMLHttpRequest</code> object. <a href="#refsXHR">[XHR]</a></dd>
 
 
      <dt>If a <code>Document</code> or image was generated from a
@@ -44291,10 +44291,9 @@
      <dd>The <a href="#origin">origin</a> is a globally unique identifier
      assigned when the <code>Document</code> or image is created.</dd>
 
-    </dl><p>When a <code>Document</code> is created, unless stated
-    otherwise above, its <a href="#effective-script-origin">effective script origin</a> is
-    initialized to the <a href="#origin">origin</a> of the
-    <code>Document</code>. However, the <code title="dom-document-domain"><a href="#dom-document-domain">document.domain</a></code> attribute can
+    </dl><p>When a <code>Document</code> is created, its <a href="#effective-script-origin">effective
+    script origin</a> is initialized to the <a href="#origin">origin</a> of
+    the <code>Document</code>. However, the <code title="dom-document-domain"><a href="#dom-document-domain">document.domain</a></code> attribute can
     be used to change it.</p>
 
    </dd>
@@ -45156,9 +45155,9 @@
   </div><!--test: <a href="http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/?%3C!DOCTYPE%20html%3E%0A...%3Cscript%3E%0Aw(a%3Ddocument.implementation.createDocument(null%2C%20null%2C%20null))%3B%0Aw(a.appendChild(a.createElementNS('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F1999%2Fxhtml'%2C%20'html')))%3B%0Aw(b%3Da.firstChild.appendChild(a.createElementNS('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F1999%2Fxhtml'%2C%20'body')))%3B%0Aw(b.test%20%3D%20w)%3B%0Aw(b.setAttribute('onclick'%2C%20'test(%22fire%3A%20%22%20%2B%20event)'))%3B%0Aw(b.onclick)%3B%0Aw(e%3Da.createEvent('Event'))%3B%0Aw(e.initEvent('click'%2C%20false%2C%20false))%3B%0Aw(b.dispatchEvent(e))%3B%0A%3C%2Fscript%3E">test</a>--><p>Many objects can have <dfn id="event-handler-attributes-0">event handler attributes</dfn>
   specified. These act as bubbling event listeners for the object on
   which they are specified.<p>An <a href="#event-handler-attributes-0" title="event handler attributes">event handler
-  attribute</a>, unless otherwise specified, can either have the
-  value null or be set to a <code><a href="#function">Function</a></code> object. <span class="impl">Initially, an event handler attribute must be set to
-  null.</span><p>Event handler attributes are exposed in one or two ways.<p>The first way, common to all event handler attributes, is as an
+  attribute</a> can either have the value null or be set to a
+  <code><a href="#function">Function</a></code> object. <span class="impl">Initially, event
+  handler attributes must be set to null.</span><p>Event handler attributes are exposed in one or two ways.<p>The first way, common to all event handler attributes, is as an
   <a href="#event-handler-idl-attributes" title="event handler IDL attributes">event handler IDL
   attribute</a>.<p>The second way is as an <a href="#event-handler-content-attributes" title="event handler content
   attributes">event handler content attribute</a>. Event handlers on
@@ -45446,21 +45445,22 @@
   the time the event is created.</p>
 
   <p><dfn id="fire-a-simple-event" title="fire a simple event">Firing a simple event called
-  <var title="">e</var></dfn> means that an event with the name <var title="">e</var>, with no namespace, which does not bubble (unless
-  otherwise stated) and is not cancelable (unless otherwise stated),
-  and which uses the <code>Event</code> interface, must be dispatched
-  at the given target.</p>
+  <var title="">e</var></dfn> means that an event with the name <var title="">e</var>, with no namespace, which does not bubble (except
+  where otherwise stated) and is not cancelable (except where
+  otherwise stated), and which uses the <code>Event</code> interface,
+  must be dispatched at the given target.</p>
 
   <p><dfn id="fire-a-progress-event" title="fire a progress event">Firing a progress event called
   <var title="">e</var></dfn>, optionally in the context of a
   particular instance of the <a href="#fetch" title="fetch">fetching
-  algorithm</a>, means that an event with the name <var title="">e</var>, with no namespace, which does not bubble (unless
-  otherwise stated) and is not cancelable (unless otherwise stated),
-  and which uses the <code>ProgressEvent</code> interface, must be
-  dispatched at the given target element. If there is a <a href="#fetch" title="fetch">fetching algorithm</a>, and the <a href="#url">URL</a>
-  being <a href="#fetch" title="fetch">fetched</a> has the <a href="#same-origin">same
-  origin</a> as the <code>Document</code> of the target element,
-  then the <code title="dom-ProgressEvents-lengthComputable">lengthComputable</code>
+  algorithm</a>, means that an event with the name <var title="">e</var>, with no namespace, which does not bubble (except
+  where otherwise stated) and is not cancelable (except where
+  otherwise stated), and which uses the <code>ProgressEvent</code>
+  interface, must be dispatched at the given target element. If there
+  is a <a href="#fetch" title="fetch">fetching algorithm</a>, and the
+  <a href="#url">URL</a> being <a href="#fetch" title="fetch">fetched</a> has the
+  <a href="#same-origin">same origin</a> as the <code>Document</code> of the target
+  element, then the <code title="dom-ProgressEvents-lengthComputable">lengthComputable</code>
   attribute must be set to true if the <a href="#fetch" title="fetch">fetching
   algorithm</a>'s subject has a known <a href="#concept-fetch-total" title="concept-fetch-total">size</a>; the <code title="dom-ProgressEvents-total">total</code> attribute must be set
   to the subject's <a href="#concept-fetch-total" title="concept-fetch-total">size</a> if it
@@ -45471,7 +45471,7 @@
   attribute must be set to false, and the <code title="dom-ProgressEvents-total">total</code> and the <code title="dom-ProgressEvents-loaded">loaded</code> attributes must be
   set to zero. <a href="#refsPROGRESS">[PROGRESS]</a></p>
 
-  <p>The default action of these event is to do nothing unless
+  <p>The default action of these event is to do nothing where where
   otherwise stated.</p>
 
   </div><div class="impl">
@@ -50125,8 +50125,8 @@
   spaces">split on spaces</a>. The resulting tokens are the link
   types that apply to that element.</p>
 
-  </div><p>Unless otherwise specified, a keyword must not be specified more
-  than once per <code title="attr-rel-hyperlink">rel</code>
+  </div><p>Except where otherwise specified, a keyword must not be specified
+  more than once per <code title="attr-rel-hyperlink">rel</code>
   attribute.<p>The link types are <a href="#ascii-case-insensitive">ASCII case-insensitive</a>
   values<span class="impl">, and must be compared as such</span>.<p class="example">Thus, <code title="">rel="next"</code> is the
   same as <code title="">rel="NEXT"</code>.<table><thead><tr><th rowspan="2">Link type</th>
@@ -53923,7 +53923,7 @@
 
   <p>There are three variants to this method, with one, two, and three
   arguments respectively. The <var title="">showUI</var> and <var title="">value</var> parameters, even if specified, are ignored
-  unless otherwise stated.</p>
+  except where otherwise stated.</p>
 
   <p>When <code title="dom-document-execCommand"><a href="#execCommand">execCommand()</a></code>
   is invoked, the user agent must follow the following steps:</p>
@@ -54392,13 +54392,13 @@
   <a href="#channel-messaging">channel messaging</a> the <code><a href="#messageportarray">MessagePortArray</a></code>
   being sent, if any.</p>
 
-  <p>Unless otherwise specified, when the user agent creates and
+  <p>Except where otherwise specified, when the user agent creates and
   dispatches a <code title="event-message"><a href="#event-message">message</a></code> event in the
   algorithms described in the following sections, the <code title="dom-MessageEvent-lastEventId"><a href="#dom-messageevent-lasteventid">lastEventId</a></code> attribute
   must be the empty string, the <code title="dom-MessageEvent-origin"><a href="#dom-messageevent-origin">origin</a></code> attribute must be the
   empty string, the <code title="dom-MessageEvent-source"><a href="#dom-messageevent-source">source</a></code> attribute must be
-  null, and the <code title="dom-MessageEvent-ports"><a href="#dom-messageevent-ports">ports</a></code> attribute
-  must be null.</p>
+  null, and the <code title="dom-MessageEvent-ports"><a href="#dom-messageevent-ports">ports</a></code>
+  attribute must be null.</p>
 
   </div><h3 id="crossDocumentMessages"><span class="secno">8.2 </span><dfn>Cross-document messaging</dfn></h3><p class="XXX annotation"><b>Status: </b><i>Awaiting implementation feedback</i><p>Web browsers, for security and privacy reasons, prevent documents
   in different domains from affecting each other; that is, cross-site
@@ -65008,9 +65008,9 @@
 
   <h4 id="introduction-7"><span class="secno">11.2.1 </span>Introduction</h4>
 
-  <p>The CSS rules given in these subsections are, unless otherwise
-  specified, expected to be used as part of the user-agent level style
-  sheet defaults for all documents that contain <a href="#html-elements">HTML
+  <p>The CSS rules given in these subsections are, except where
+  otherwise specified, expected to be used as part of the user-agent
+  level style sheet defaults for all documents that contain <a href="#html-elements">HTML
   elements</a>.</p>
 
   <p>Some rules are intended for the author-level zero-specificity

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