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Re: Comments on HTML WG face to face meetings in France Oct 08

From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:11:48 +0200
Cc: elharo@metalab.unc.edu, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>, public-html <public-html@w3.org>, www-tag@w3.org
Message-Id: <96268899-9462-4995-8AA0-FB85F1C2BD40@iki.fi>
To: Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar@googlemail.com> 

On Nov 19, 2008, at 00:09, Geoffrey Sneddon wrote:

> Would it not be possible to not just buffer when you reach something  
> that cannot be said to certainly be the next event, or do you end up  
> buffering the entire document in such cases?


An <html> start tag token with attributes can occur arbitrarily late  
and requires adding attributes to the root element, so no.

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Henri Sivonen
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