hixie: Define 'element type'. (whatwg r6518)

hixie: Define 'element type'. (whatwg r6518)

http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/spec/Overview.html?r1=1.5217&r2=1.5218&f=h
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6517&to=6518

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RCS file: /sources/public/html5/spec/Overview.html,v
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retrieving revision 1.5218
diff -u -d -r1.5217 -r1.5218
--- Overview.html 22 Aug 2011 22:15:36 -0000 1.5217
+++ Overview.html 22 Aug 2011 22:34:34 -0000 1.5218
@@ -2593,10 +2593,13 @@
   elements</dfn>", when used in this specification, refers to any
   element in that namespace, and thus refers to both HTML and XHTML
   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
+  in this specification are in the <a href="#html-namespace-0">HTML namespace</a>
+  ("<code>http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml</code>"), and all attributes
+  defined or mentioned in this specification have no namespace.<p>The term <dfn id="element-type">element type</dfn> is used to refer to the class of
+  elements have a given local name and namespace. For example,
+  <code><a href="#the-button-element">button</a></code> elements are elements with the element type
+  <code><a href="#the-button-element">button</a></code>, meaning they have the local name "<code title="">button</code>" and (implicitly as defined above) the
+  <a href="#html-namespace-0">HTML namespace</a>.<p>Attribute names are said to be <dfn id="xml-compatible">XML-compatible</dfn> if they
   match the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#NT-Name"><code title="">Name</code></a> production defined in XML, they contain no
   U+003A COLON characters (:), and their first three characters are
   not an <a href="#ascii-case-insensitive">ASCII case-insensitive</a> match for the string
@@ -73252,6 +73255,7 @@
   Jim Jewett,
   Jim Ley,
   Jim Meehan,
+  Jirka Kosek,
   Jjgod Jiang,
   Jo&atilde;o Eiras,
   Joe Clark,

Received on Monday, 22 August 2011 22:35:05 UTC