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- Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:40:27 +0000
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<li><p>If <var title="">position</var> is beyond the end of <var title="">input</var>, then fail.</li>
- <li>
+ <li><p><a href=#parse-a-timezone-component>Parse a timezone component</a> to obtain <var title="">timezone<sub title="">hours</sub></var> and <var title="">timezone<sub title="">minutes</sub></var>. If this returns
+ nothing, then fail.</p>
+
+ <li><p>If <var title="">position</var> is <em>not</em> beyond the
+ end of <var title="">input</var>, then fail.</li>
+
+ <li><p>Let <var title="">time</var> be the moment in time at year
+ <var title="">year</var>, month <var title="">month</var>, day <var title="">day</var>, hours <var title="">hour</var>, minute <var title="">minute</var>, second <var title="">second</var>,
+ subtracting <var title="">timezone<sub title="">hours</sub></var>
+ hours and <var title="">timezone<sub title="">minutes</sub></var>
+ minutes. That moment in time is a moment in the UTC
+ timezone.</li>
+
+ <li><p>Let <var title="">timezone</var> be <var title="">timezone<sub title="">hours</sub></var> hours and <var title="">timezone<sub title="">minutes</sub></var> minutes from
+ UTC.</li>
+
+ <li><p>Return <var title="">time</var> and <var title="">timezone</var>.</li>
+
+ </ol><p>The rules to <dfn id=parse-a-timezone-component>parse a timezone component</dfn>, given an <var title="">input</var> string and a <var title="">position</var>, are
+ as follows. This will either return timezone hours and timezone
+ minutes, or nothing. If at any point the algorithm says that it
+ "fails", this means that it is aborted at that point and returns
+ nothing.<ol><li>
<p>If the character at <var title="">position</var> is a U+005A
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z, then:</p>
@@ -2692,20 +2714,8 @@
</ol></li>
- <li><p>If <var title="">position</var> is <em>not</em> beyond the
- end of <var title="">input</var>, then fail.</li>
-
- <li><p>Let <var title="">time</var> be the moment in time at year
- <var title="">year</var>, month <var title="">month</var>, day <var title="">day</var>, hours <var title="">hour</var>, minute <var title="">minute</var>, second <var title="">second</var>,
- subtracting <var title="">timezone<sub title="">hours</sub></var>
- hours and <var title="">timezone<sub title="">minutes</sub></var>
- minutes. That moment in time is a moment in the UTC
- timezone.</li>
-
- <li><p>Let <var title="">timezone</var> be <var title="">timezone<sub title="">hours</sub></var> hours and <var title="">timezone<sub title="">minutes</sub></var> minutes from
- UTC.</li>
-
- <li><p>Return <var title="">time</var> and <var title="">timezone</var>.</li>
+ <li><p>Return <var title="">timezone<sub title="">hours</sub></var>
+ and <var title="">timezone<sub title="">minutes</sub></var>.</li>
</ol><h5 id=weeks><span class=secno>2.4.4.6 </span>Weeks</h5><p>A <dfn id=concept-week title=concept-week>week</dfn> consists of a week-year
number and a week number representing a seven day period. Each
@@ -2782,289 +2792,91 @@
<li><p>Return the week-year number <var title="">year</var> and the
week number <var title="">week</var>.</li>
- </ol><h5 id=vaguer-moments-in-time><span class=secno>2.4.4.7 </span>Vaguer moments in time</h5><p>This section defines <dfn id=date-or-time-string title="date or time string">date or
- time strings</dfn>. There are two kinds, <dfn id=date-or-time-string-in-content title="date or time
- string in content">date or time strings in content</dfn>, and <dfn id=date-or-time-string-in-attributes title="date or time string in attributes">date or time strings in
- attributes</dfn>. The only difference is in the handling of
- whitespace characters.<p>To parse a <a href=#date-or-time-string>date or time string</a>, user agents must use
- the following algorithm. A <a href=#date-or-time-string>date or time string</a> is a
- <em>valid</em> date or time string if the following algorithm, when
- run on the string, doesn't say the string is invalid.</p><!-- XXX should define that without reference to the algorithm --><p>The algorithm may return nothing (in which case the string will
- be invalid), or it may return a date, a time, a date and a time, or
- a date and a time and a timezone. Even if the algorithm returns
- one or more values, the string can still be invalid.<ol><!-- INIT --><li><p>Let <var title="">input</var> be the string being
- parsed.</li>
-
- <li><p>Let <var title="">position</var> be a pointer into <var title="">input</var>, initially pointing at the start of the
- string.</li>
-
- <li><p>Let <var title="">results</var> be the collection of results
- that are to be returned (one or more of a date, a time, and a
- timezone), initially empty. If the algorithm aborts at any point,
- then whatever is currently in <var title="">results</var> must be
- returned as the result of the algorithm.</li>
-
- <!-- LEADING WHITESPACE -->
- <li><p>For the "in content" variant: <a href=#skip-white_space-characters>skip White_Space
- characters</a>; for the "in attributes" variant: <a href=#skip-whitespace>skip
- whitespace</a>.</li><!-- XXX skip whitespace in attribute?
- really? -->
-
- <!-- YEAR or HOUR -->
- <li><p><a href=#collect-a-sequence-of-characters>Collect a sequence of characters</a> in the range
- U+0030 DIGIT ZERO (0) to U+0039 DIGIT NINE (9). If the collected
- sequence is empty, then the string is invalid; abort these
- steps.</li>
-
- <li><p>Let the sequence of characters collected in the last step be
- <var title="">s</var>.</li>
-
- <li><p>If <var title="">position</var> is past the end of <var title="">input</var>, the string is invalid; abort these
- steps.</li>
-
- <li><p>If the character at <var title="">position</var> is
- <em>not</em> a U+003A COLON character, then:</p>
-
- <!-- DATE -->
- <ol><li><p>If the character at <var title="">position</var> is not a
- U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS ("-") character either, then the string is
- invalid, abort these steps.</li>
-
- <!-- YEAR -->
- <li><p>If the sequence <var title="">s</var> is not exactly four
- digits long, then the string is invalid. (This does not stop the
- algorithm, however.)</li>
-
- <li><p>Interpret the sequence of characters collected in step 5 as
- a base-ten integer, and let that number be <var title="">year</var>.</li>
-
- <li><p>Advance <var title="">position</var> past the U+002D
- HYPHEN-MINUS ("-") character.</li>
-
- <!-- MONTH -->
- <li><p><a href=#collect-a-sequence-of-characters>Collect a sequence of characters</a> in the range
- U+0030 DIGIT ZERO (0) to U+0039 DIGIT NINE (9). If the collected
- sequence is empty, then the string is invalid; abort these
- steps.</li>
-
- <li><p>If the sequence collected in the last step is not exactly
- two digits long, then the string is invalid.</li>
-
- <li><p>Interpret the sequence of characters collected two steps ago
- as a base-ten integer, and let that number be <var title="">month</var>.</li>
-
- <li>If <var title="">month</var> is not a number in the range
- 1 ≤ <var title="">month</var> ≤ 12, then
- the string is invalid, abort these steps.</li>
-
- <li><p>Let <var title="">maxday</var> be the <a href=#number-of-days-in-month-month-of-year-year>number of days
- in month <var title="">month</var> of year <var title="">year</var></a>.</li>
-
- <li><p>If <var title="">position</var> is past the end of <var title="">input</var>, or if the character at <var title="">position</var> is <em>not</em> a U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS ("-")
- character, then the string is invalid, abort these
- steps. Otherwise, advance <var title="">position</var> to the next
- character.</li>
-
- <!-- DAY -->
- <li><p><a href=#collect-a-sequence-of-characters>Collect a sequence of characters</a> in the range
- U+0030 DIGIT ZERO (0) to U+0039 DIGIT NINE (9). If the collected
- sequence is empty, then the string is invalid; abort these
- steps.</li>
-
- <li><p>If the sequence collected in the last step is not exactly
- two digits long, then the string is invalid.</li>
-
- <li><p>Interpret the sequence of characters collected two steps
- ago as a base-ten integer, and let that number be <var title="">day</var>.</li>
-
- <li><p>If <var title="">day</var> is not a number in the range
- 1 ≤ <var title="">day</var> ≤ <var title="">maxday</var>, then the string is invalid, abort these
- steps.</li>
-
- <li><p>Add the date represented by <var title="">year</var>, <var title="">month</var>, and <var title="">day</var> to the <var title="">results</var>.</li>
-
- <!-- XXX we should allow the algorithm to abort here without
- error, with just a date. -->
-
- <!-- WHITESPACE -->
- <li><p>For the "in content" variant: <a href=#skip-white_space-characters>skip White_Space
- characters</a>; for the "in attributes" variant: <a href=#skip-whitespace>skip
- whitespace</a>.</li>
-
- <li><p>If the character at <var title="">position</var> is a U+0054
- LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T, then move <var title="">position</var>
- forwards one character.</li>
-
- <li><p>For the "in content" variant: <a href=#skip-white_space-characters>skip White_Space
- characters</a>; for the "in attributes" variant: <a href=#skip-whitespace>skip
- whitespace</a>.</li>
-
- <!-- at this point, if <var title="">position</var> points to a
- number, we know that we passed at least one space or a T, because
- otherwise the number would have been slurped up in the last
- "collect" step. -->
-
- <!-- HOUR -->
- <li><p><a href=#collect-a-sequence-of-characters>Collect a sequence of characters</a> in the range
- U+0030 DIGIT ZERO (0) to U+0039 DIGIT NINE (9). If the collected
- sequence is empty, then the string is invalid; abort these
- steps.</li>
-
- <li><p>Let <var title="">s</var> be the sequence of characters
- collected in the last step.</li>
-
- </ol></li>
-
- <!-- TIME -->
-
- <li><p>If <var title="">s</var> is not exactly two digits long,
- then the string is invalid.</li>
-
- <li><p>Interpret the sequence of characters collected two steps
- ago as a base-ten integer, and let that number be <var title="">hour</var>.</li>
-
- <li><p>If <var title="">hour</var> is not a number in the range
- 0 ≤ <var title="">hour</var> ≤ 23, then
- the string is invalid, abort these steps.</li>
-
- <li><p>If <var title="">position</var> is past the end of <var title="">input</var>, or if the character at <var title="">position</var> is <em>not</em> a U+003A COLON character,
- then the string is invalid, abort these steps. Otherwise, advance
- <var title="">position</var> to the next character.</li>
-
- <!-- MINUTE -->
- <li><p><a href=#collect-a-sequence-of-characters>Collect a sequence of characters</a> in the range
- U+0030 DIGIT ZERO (0) to U+0039 DIGIT NINE (9). If the collected
- sequence is empty, then the string is invalid; abort these
- steps.</li>
-
- <li><p>If the sequence collected in the last step is not exactly
- two digits long, then the string is invalid.</li>
-
- <li><p>Interpret the sequence of characters collected two steps
- ago as a base-ten integer, and let that number be <var title="">minute</var>.</li>
-
- <li><p>If <var title="">minute</var> is not a number in the range
- 0 ≤ <var title="">minute</var> ≤ 59, then
- the string is invalid, abort these steps.</li>
-
- <!-- SECOND -->
- <li><p>Let <var title="">second</var> be 0. It might be changed to
- another value in the next step.</li>
-
- <li><p>If <var title="">position</var> is not past the end of <var title="">input</var> and the character at <var title="">position</var> is a U+003A COLON character, then:</p>
-
- <ol><li><p><a href=#collect-a-sequence-of-characters>Collect a sequence of characters</a> that are
- either characters in the range U+0030 DIGIT ZERO (0) to U+0039
- DIGIT NINE (9) or are U+002E FULL STOP. If the collected sequence
- is empty, or contains more than one U+002E FULL STOP character,
- then the string is invalid; abort these steps.</li>
-
- <li><p>If the first character in the sequence collected in the
- last step is not in the range U+0030 DIGIT ZERO (0) to U+0039
- DIGIT NINE (9), then the string is invalid.</li>
-
- <li><p>Interpret the sequence of characters collected two steps
- ago as a base-ten number (possibly with a fractional part), and
- let that number be <var title="">second</var>.</li>
-
- <li><p>If <var title="">second</var> is not a number in the range
- 0 ≤ <var title="">minute</var> < 60,
- then the string is invalid, abort these steps.</li>
-
- </ol></li>
-
- <li><p>Add the time represented by <var title="">hour</var>, <var title="">minute</var>, and <var title="">second</var> to the <var title="">results</var>.</li>
-
- <!-- TIME ZONE -->
-
- <li><p>If <var title="">results</var> has both a date and a time,
- then:</p>
-
- <ol><li><p>For the "in content" variant: <a href=#skip-white_space-characters>skip White_Space
- characters</a>; for the "in attributes" variant: <a href=#skip-whitespace>skip
- whitespace</a>.</li>
-
- <li><p>If <var title="">position</var> is past the end of <var title="">input</var>, then skip to the next step in the overall
- set of steps.</p>
+ </ol><h5 id=vaguer-moments-in-time><span class=secno>2.4.4.7 </span>Vaguer moments in time</h5><p>A <dfn id=date-or-time-string>date or time string</dfn> consists of either a <a href=#concept-date title=concept-date>date</a>, a <a href=#concept-time title=concept-time>time</a>, or a <a href=#concept-datetime title=concept-datetime>global date and time</a>.<p>A string is a <dfn id=valid-date-or-time-string>valid date or time string</dfn> if it is also
+ one of the following:<ul><li>A <a href=#valid-date-string>valid date string</a>.</li>
- <!-- UTC -->
- <li><p>Otherwise, if the character at <var title="">position</var> is a U+005A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z,
- then:</p>
+ <li>A <a href=#valid-time-string>valid time string</a>.</li>
- <ol><li><p>Add the timezone corresponding to UTC (zero offset) to
- the <var title="">results</var>.</li>
+ <li>A <a href=#valid-global-date-and-time-string>valid global date and time string</a>.</li>
- <li><p>Advance <var title="">position</var> to the next character
- in <var title="">input</var>.</li>
+ </ul><p>A string is a <dfn id=valid-date-or-time-string-in-content>valid date or time string in content</dfn> if
+ it consists of zero or more <a href=#white_space>White_Space</a> characters,
+ followed by a <a href=#valid-date-or-time-string>valid date or time string</a>, followed by
+ zero or more further <a href=#white_space>White_Space</a> characters.<p>The rules to <dfn id=parse-a-date-or-time-string>parse a date or time string</dfn> are as
+ follows. The algorithm is invoked with a flag indicating if the
+ <i>in attribute</i> variant or the <i>in content</i> variant is to
+ be used. The algorithm will either return a <a href=#concept-date title=concept-date>date</a>, a <a href=#concept-time title=concept-time>time</a>, a <a href=#concept-datetime title=concept-datetime>global date and time</a>, or nothing. If
+ at any point the algorithm says that it "fails", this means that it
+ is aborted at that point and returns nothing.<ol><li><p>Let <var title="">input</var> be the string being
+ parsed.</li>
- <li><p>Skip to the next step in the overall set of
- steps.</li>
+ <li><p>Let <var title="">position</var> be a pointer into <var title="">input</var>, initially pointing at the start of the
+ string.</li>
- </ol></li>
+ <li><p>For the <i>in content</i> variant: <a href=#skip-white_space-characters>skip White_Space
+ characters</a>.</li>
- <!-- EXPLICIT TIMEZONE OFFSET -->
- <li><p>Otherwise, if the character at <var title="">position</var> is either a U+002B PLUS SIGN ("+") or a
- U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS ("-"), then:</p>
+ <li><p>Set <var title="">start position</var> to the same position
+ as <var title="">position</var>.</li>
- <ol><!-- SIGN --><li><p>If the character at <var title="">position</var> is a
- U+002B PLUS SIGN ("+"), let <var title="">sign</var> be
- "positive". Otherwise, it's a U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS ("-"); let
- <var title="">sign</var> be "negative".</li>
+ <li><p>Set the <var title="">date present</var> and <var title="">time present</var> flags to true.</li>
- <!-- HOURS -->
- <li><p>Advance <var title="">position</var> to the next
- character in <var title="">input</var>.</li>
+ <li><p><a href=#parse-a-date-component>Parse a date component</a> to obtain <var title="">year</var>, <var title="">month</var>, and <var title="">day</var>. If this fails, then set the <var title="">date
+ present</var> flag to false.</p>
- <li><p><a href=#collect-a-sequence-of-characters>Collect a sequence of characters</a> in the
- range U+0030 DIGIT ZERO (0) to U+0039 DIGIT NINE (9). If the
- collected sequence is not exactly two characters long, then
- the string is invalid.</li>
+ <li>
- <li><p>Interpret the sequence collected in the last step as a
- base-ten number, and let that number be <var title="">timezone<sub title="">hours</sub></var>.</li>
+ <p>If <var title="">date present</var> is true, and <var title="">position</var> is not beyond the end of <var title="">input</var>, and the character at <var title="">position</var> is a U+0054 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T
+ character, then advance <var title="">position</var> to the next
+ character in <var title="">input</var>.</p>
- <li>If <var title="">timezone<sub title="">hours</sub></var> is not a
- number in the range 0 ≤ <var title="">timezone<sub title="">hours</sub></var> ≤ 23, then
- the string is invalid; abort these steps.</li>
+ <p>Otherwise, if <var title="">date present</var> is true, and
+ either <var title="">position</var> is beyond the end of <var title="">input</var> or the character at <var title="">position</var> is not a U+0054 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T
+ character, then set <var title="">time present</var> to false.</p>
- <li>If <var title="">sign</var> is "negative", then negate <var title="">timezone<sub title="">hours</sub></var>.</li>
+ <p>Otherwise, if <var title="">date present</var> is false, set
+ <var title="">position</var> back to the same position as <var title="">start position</var>.</p>
- <li><p>If <var title="">position</var> is beyond the end of
- <var title="">input</var> or if the character at <var title="">position</var> is not a U+003A COLON character, then
- the string is invalid; abort these steps. Otherwise, move <var title="">position</var> forwards one character.</li>
+ </li>
- <!-- MINUTES -->
- <li><p><a href=#collect-a-sequence-of-characters>Collect a sequence of characters</a> in the range
- U+0030 DIGIT ZERO (0) to U+0039 DIGIT NINE (9). If the collected
- sequence is not exactly two characters long, then the string is invalid.</li>
+ <li><p>If the <var title="">time present</var> flag is true, then
+ <a href=#parse-a-time-component>parse a time component</a> to obtain <var title="">hour</var>, <var title="">minute</var>, and <var title="">second</var>. If this returns nothing, then set the <var title="">time present</var> flag to false.</p>
- <li><p>Interpret the sequence collected in the last step as a
- base-ten number, and let that number be <var title="">timezone<sub title="">minutes</sub></var>.</li>
+ <li><p>If both the <var title="">date present</var> and <var title="">time present</var> flags are false, then fail.</li>
- <li>If <var title="">timezone<sub title="">minutes</sub></var> is not a
- number in the range 0 ≤ <var title="">timezone<sub title="">minutes</sub></var> ≤ 59,
- then the string is invalid; abort these steps.</li>
+ <li><p>If the <var title="">time present</var> flag is true, but
+ <var title="">position</var> is beyond the end of <var title="">input</var>, then fail.</li>
- <li><p>Add the timezone corresponding to an offset of <var title="">timezone<sub title="">hours</sub></var> hours and <var title="">timezone<sub title="">minutes</sub></var> minutes to the <var title="">results</var>.</li>
+ <li><p>If the <var title="">date present</var> and <var title="">time present</var> flags are both true, <a href=#parse-a-timezone-component>parse a
+ timezone component</a> to obtain <var title="">timezone<sub title="">hours</sub></var> and <var title="">timezone<sub title="">minutes</sub></var>. If this returns nothing, then
+ fail.</p>
- <li><p>Skip to the next step in the overall set of
- steps.</li>
+ <li><p>For the <i>in content</i> variant: <a href=#skip-white_space-characters>skip White_Space
+ characters</a>.</li>
- </ol></li>
+ <li><p>If <var title="">position</var> is <em>not</em> beyond the
+ end of <var title="">input</var>, then fail.</li>
- <li><p>Otherwise, the string is invalid; abort these
- steps.</li>
+ <li>
- </ol></li>
+ <p>If the <var title="">date present</var> flag is true and the
+ <var title="">time present</var> flag is false, then let <var title="">date</var> be the date with year <var title="">year</var>, month <var title="">month</var>, and day <var title="">day</var>, and return <var title="">date</var>.</p>
- <li><p>For the "in content" variant: <a href=#skip-white_space-characters>skip White_Space
- characters</a>; for the "in attributes" variant: <a href=#skip-whitespace>skip
- whitespace</a>.</li>
+ <p>Otherwise, if the <var title="">time present</var> flag is true
+ and the <var title="">date present</var> flag is false, then let
+ <var title="">time</var> be the time with hour <var title="">hour</var>, minute <var title="">minute</var>, and second
+ <var title="">second</var>, and return <var title="">time</var>.</p>
- <li><p>If <var title="">position</var> is <em>not</em> past the end
- of <var title="">input</var>, then the string is invalid.</p>
+ <p>Otherwise, let <var title="">time</var> be the moment in time
+ at year <var title="">year</var>, month <var title="">month</var>,
+ day <var title="">day</var>, hours <var title="">hour</var>,
+ minute <var title="">minute</var>, second <var title="">second</var>, subtracting <var title="">timezone<sub title="">hours</sub></var> hours and <var title="">timezone<sub title="">minutes</sub></var> minutes, that moment in time being a
+ moment in the UTC timezone; let <var title="">timezone</var> be
+ <var title="">timezone<sub title="">hours</sub></var> hours and
+ <var title="">timezone<sub title="">minutes</sub></var> minutes
+ from UTC; and return <var title="">time</var> and <var title="">timezone</var>.</p>
- <li><p>Abort these steps (the string is parsed).</li>
+ </li>
</ol><h5 id=time-offsets><span class=secno>2.4.4.8 </span>Time offsets</h5><p class=XXX><dfn id=valid-time-offset>valid time offset</dfn>, <dfn id=rules-for-parsing-time-offsets>rules for
parsing time offsets</dfn>, <dfn id=time-offset-serialization-rules>time offset serialization
@@ -10262,22 +10074,21 @@
};</pre>
</dd>
</dl><p>The <code><a href=#the-time-element>time</a></code> element represents a date and/or a time.<p>The <dfn id=attr-time-datetime title=attr-time-datetime><code>datetime</code></dfn>
- attribute, if present, must contain a <a href=#date-or-time-string>date or time
- string</a> that identifies the date or time being specified.<p>If the <code title=attr-time-datetime><a href=#attr-time-datetime>datetime</a></code> attribute is
- not present, then the date or time must be specified in the content
- of the element, such that parsing the element's
- <code><a href=#textcontent>textContent</a></code> according to the rules for parsing <a href=#date-or-time-string-in-content title="date or time string in content">date or time strings in
- content</a> successfully extracts a date or time.<p>The <dfn id=dom-time-datetime title=dom-time-datetime><code>dateTime</code></dfn> DOM
+ attribute, if present, must contain a <a href=#valid-date-or-time-string>valid date or time
+ string</a> that identifies the date or time being specified.<p>If the <code title=attr-time-datetime><a href=#attr-time-datetime>datetime</a></code> attribute
+ is not present, then the date or time must be specified in the
+ content of the element, such that the element's
+ <code><a href=#textcontent>textContent</a></code> is a <a href=#valid-date-or-time-string-in-content>valid date or time string in
+ content</a>.<p>The <dfn id=dom-time-datetime title=dom-time-datetime><code>dateTime</code></dfn> DOM
attribute must <a href=#reflect>reflect</a> the <code title=attr-time-datetime><a href=#attr-time-datetime>datetime</a></code> content attribute.<p>User agents, to obtain the <dfn id=concept-time-date title=concept-time-date>date</dfn>, <dfn id=concept-time-time title=concept-time-time>time</dfn>, and <dfn id=concept-time-timezone title=concept-time-timezone>timezone</dfn> represented by a
<code><a href=#the-time-element>time</a></code> element, must follow these steps:<ol><li>If the <code title=attr-time-datetime><a href=#attr-time-datetime>datetime</a></code>
- attribute is present, then parse it according to the rules for
- parsing <a href=#date-or-time-string-in-attributes title="date or time string in attributes">date or
- time strings in attributes</a>, and let the result be <var title="">result</var>.</li>
+ attribute is present, then use the rules to <a href=#parse-a-date-or-time-string>parse a date or
+ time string</a> with the flag <i>in attribute</i> from the value
+ of that attribute, and let the result be <var title="">result</var>.</li>
- <li>Otherwise, parse the element's <code><a href=#textcontent>textContent</a></code>
- according to the rules for parsing <a href=#date-or-time-string-in-attributes title="date or time string
- in attributes">date or time strings in content</a>, and let the
- result be <var title="">result</var>.</li>
+ <li>Otherwise, use the rules to <a href=#parse-a-date-or-time-string>parse a date or time
+ string</a> with the flag <i>in content</i> from the element's
+ <code><a href=#textcontent>textContent</a></code>, and let the result be <var title="">result</var>.</li>
<li>If <var title="">result</var> is empty (because the parsing
failed), then the <a href=#concept-time-date title=concept-time-date>date</a> is
@@ -10291,10 +10102,10 @@
timezone can only be present if both a date and a time are also
present.)</li>
- </ol><p>The <dfn id=dom-time-date title=dom-time-date><code>date</code></dfn> DOM attribute
- must return null if the <a href=#concept-time-date title=concept-time-date>date</a> is
- unknown, and otherwise must return the time corresponding to
- midnight UTC (i.e. the first second) of the given <a href=#concept-time-date title=concept-time-date>date</a>.<p>The <dfn id=dom-time-time title=dom-time-time><code>time</code></dfn> DOM attribute
+ </ol><p>The <dfn id=dom-time-date title=dom-time-date><code>date</code></dfn> DOM
+ attribute must return null if the <a href=#concept-time-date title=concept-time-date>date</a> is unknown, and otherwise must
+ return the time corresponding to midnight UTC (i.e. the first
+ second) of the given <a href=#concept-time-date title=concept-time-date>date</a>.<p>The <dfn id=dom-time-time title=dom-time-time><code>time</code></dfn> DOM attribute
must return null if the <a href=#concept-time-time title=concept-time-time>time</a> is
unknown, and otherwise must return the time corresponding to the
given <a href=#concept-time-time title=concept-time-time>time</a> of 1970-01-01, with
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