- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:53:47 -0500
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- CC: HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
Henri Sivonen wrote: > (For the benefit of those who look up things piecemeal in the spec Which is pretty much everyone, in my experience, especially with a spec this size. > to whom it isn't clear that the spec looks everything through > DOM-colored glasses and who assume general English meaning of words, Does the spec use a different term to refer to the Document object then? Using a single word to mean two different things depending on the context (which is not always clear in this spec, in my experience) seems like a bad idea. > Furthermore, HTML 5 uses "XML document" to mean a DOM tree with the > HTMLness flag set to false whereas the XML spec uses "XML document" to > mean an stream of bytes that satisfies a particular format. This is less of a concern, in my opinion. Though again, the question is how one talks about a Document object with the HTMLness flag set to false. -Boris
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