Re: Support Existing Content

On Sat, 05 May 2007 02:18:05 +0200, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>  
wrote:
>> Maciej Stachowiak [mailto:mjs@apple.com] wrote:
>>> The spec describes what to do with every possible stream of input
>>> characters.
>>
>> This seems like an unimaginably arrogant statement to me.  (Now you  
>> know why I said the above first.  :) )

I wonder why. The XML specification does the same. It just says that you  
have to abort processing when you hit a certain illegal character where  
the WHATWG HTML5 proposal for HTML parsing says you have to take action X  
when you hit a certain illegal character.

A typical state looks like something like the following:

   Space character
      Switch to state A.
   EOF
      Parse error.
      Reconsume EOF in state B.
   >
      Emit token.
      Switch to state B.
   Any other character.
      Append character to the name of the current token.
      Stay in this state.

I'm not sure I really see the issue.


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