Re: Link-2: Pseudo-elements

>I think James Clark is right that pseudo-elements by themselves don't
>get us much; their main advantage in my view is that they allow the
>pointer to get as close to a string as possible before starting to count
>characters, bytes, or tokens.  If anyone thinks it's obvious what effect
>element boundaries should have on any of these counts, I suggest they
>try discussing it in a group of three.  The alleged complications and
>stickiness of pseudo-elements are child's play compared to deciding how
>to count characters across subelements.

Count me in favour of keeping psuedo-elements, and normalising
whitespace passing rules so that DTD and DTD-less parsing produce
exactly the same result.

Received on Friday, 23 May 1997 09:12:01 UTC