Re: An HTML language specification

On Fri, 28 Nov 2008, Mark Baker wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi> wrote:
> > On Nov 25, 2008, at 21:12, Mark Baker wrote:
> >
> >> Defining the language in terms of an abstraction which isn't relevant to
> >> all uses of HTML is IMO,
> >> prima facie a bad idea.
> >
> > Would you accept an abstraction of "document tree"?
> 
> I'd accept any solution that could be understood by a layperson.

How do we determine what is understood by a layperson?

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