- From: Michael Smith via cvs-syncmail <cvsmail@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:34:44 +0000
- To: public-html-commits@w3.org
Update of /sources/public/html5/markup
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Modified Files:
Overview.html documents.html elements.html spec.html
syntax.html
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added section about case insensitivity in tag names and attribute names
Index: Overview.html
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RCS file: /sources/public/html5/markup/Overview.html,v
retrieving revision 1.335
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diff -u -d -r1.335 -r1.336
--- Overview.html 30 Jul 2009 16:42:46 -0000 1.335
+++ Overview.html 31 Jul 2009 08:34:41 -0000 1.336
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@
<a href="syntax.html#syntax">6. HTML syntax</a>
</li>
<li>
-<a href="elements.html#elements">7. Elements</a>
+<a href="elements.html#elements">7. HTML elements</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="common-models.html#common-models">8. Common content models</a>
@@ -164,6 +164,9 @@
<li id="documents-toc">
<a href="documents.html#documents">5.2. Conformant documents</a>
</li>
+<li id="case-insensitivity-toc">
+<a href="documents.html#case-insensitivity">5.3. Case insensitivity in tag names and attribute names</a>
+</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li id="syntax-toc">
@@ -202,7 +205,7 @@
</ul>
</li>
<li id="elements-toc">
-<a href="elements.html#elements">7. Elements</a>
+<a href="elements.html#elements">7. HTML elements</a>
<ul>
<li id="a-toc">
<a href="a.html#a"><span class="element">a</span> – <span class="shortdesc">hyperlink</span></a>
Index: syntax.html
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RCS file: /sources/public/html5/markup/syntax.html,v
retrieving revision 1.19
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diff -u -d -r1.19 -r1.20
--- syntax.html 30 Jul 2009 17:08:49 -0000 1.19
+++ syntax.html 31 Jul 2009 08:34:42 -0000 1.20
@@ -167,9 +167,13 @@
<p>An element’s <dfn id="content-model" title="content-model">content model</dfn> defines the element’s structure: What
<a href="syntax.html#contents">contents</a> (if any) the element can
contain, as well as what attributes (if any) the element can
- have. The <a href="elements.html#elements">HTML elements</a> section of this
- specification defines the content models for all elements.
- An element must not contain <a href="syntax.html#contents">contents</a>
+ have. The
+ <a href="elements.html">HTML elements</a>
+ section of this specification defines the content models for
+ all of the elements that are part of the
+ <a href="documents.html#html-language">HTML language</a>.
+ An element must not contain
+ <a href="syntax.html#contents">contents</a>
or attributes that are not part of its content model.</p>
<p>The
<dfn id="contents" title="contents">contents</dfn>
@@ -224,17 +228,14 @@
indicate where they end.</li>
<li><dfn id="tag-name" title="syntax-tag-name">Tag names</dfn>
are used within element start tags and end tags to
- give the element’s name. HTML elements all have names that
- only use characters in the range
+ give the element’s name.
+ <a href="elements.html#html-elements">HTML elements</a>
+ all have names that only use characters in the range
<code title="U+0030 DIGIT ZERO–U+0039 DIGIT NINE">0–9</code>,
<code title="U+0061 LATIN SMALL LETTER A–U+007A LATIN SMALL LETTER Z">a–z</code>,
<code title="U+0041 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A–U+005A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z">A–Z</code>,
and the character
- "<code title="U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS">-</code>".
- Tag names may be written with any mix of
- lowercase and uppercase letters that, when converted to
- all-lowercase, matches the element’s tag name; tag names are
- case-insensitive.</li>
+ "<code title="U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS">-</code>".</li>
<li>
<dfn id="syntax-start-tags">Start tags</dfn>
consist of the following parts, in exactly the following
@@ -284,11 +285,11 @@
start tag; end tags must not be specified for void
elements.</li>
<li>The start and end tags of certain elements can be <dfn id="omitted" title="syntax-tag-omission">omitted</dfn>.
- The subsection for each element in the <a href="elements.html#elements">HTML elements</a> section of this
+ The subsection for each element in the <a href="elements.html">HTML elements</a> section of this
specification provides information about which tags (if any)
can be omitted for that particular element.</li>
<li>A non-<a href="syntax.html#void-element">void</a> element must have
- an end tag, unless the subsection for that element in the <a href="elements.html#elements">HTML elements</a> section of this
+ an end tag, unless the subsection for that element in the <a href="elements.html">HTML elements</a> section of this
specification indicates that its end tag can be <a href="syntax.html#omitted">omitted</a>.</li>
<li>The <a href="syntax.html#contents">contents</a> of an element must be
placed between just after its start tag (which
@@ -297,38 +298,41 @@
(which <a href="syntax.html#omitted" title="syntax-tag-omission">might be
implied in certain cases</a>).</li>
</ul>
- <p>If an
- <a href="syntax.html#syntax-elements">element</a>
- has both a
- <a href="syntax.html#syntax-start-tags">start tag</a>
- and an
- <a href="syntax.html#syntax-end-tags">end tag</a>,
- its end tag must be contained within the
- <a href="syntax.html#contents">contents</a>
- of the same element in which its start tag is contained.
- An
- <a href="syntax.html#syntax-end-tags">end tag</a>
- that is not contained within the same
- <a href="syntax.html#contents">contents</a>
- as its
- <a href="syntax.html#syntax-start-tags">start tag</a>
- is said to be a
- <dfn id="misnested-tag" title="misnested-tag">misnested tag</dfn>.</p>
- <div class="example">
- <p>In the following example, the
- "<code></i></code>"
+ <div id="misnesting" class="section">
+ <h2>6.3.1. Misnested tags <a class="hash" href="#misnesting">#</a></h2>
+ <p>If an
+ <a href="syntax.html#syntax-elements">element</a>
+ has both a
+ <a href="syntax.html#syntax-start-tags">start tag</a>
+ and an
+ <a href="syntax.html#syntax-end-tags">end tag</a>,
+ its end tag must be contained within the
+ <a href="syntax.html#contents">contents</a>
+ of the same element in which its start tag is contained.
+ An
<a href="syntax.html#syntax-end-tags">end tag</a>
- is a
- <a href="syntax.html#misnested-tag">misnested tag</a>,
- because it is not contained
- within the
+ that is not contained within the same
<a href="syntax.html#contents">contents</a>
- of the
- <span class="element">b</span>
- element that contains its corresponding
- "<code><i></code>"
- start tag.</p>
- <pre><b>foo <i>bar</b> baz</i></pre>
+ as its
+ <a href="syntax.html#syntax-start-tags">start tag</a>
+ is said to be a
+ <dfn id="misnested-tag" title="misnested-tag">misnested tag</dfn>.</p>
+ <div class="example">
+ <p>In the following example, the
+ "<code></i></code>"
+ <a href="syntax.html#syntax-end-tags">end tag</a>
+ is a
+ <a href="syntax.html#misnested-tag">misnested tag</a>,
+ because it is not contained
+ within the
+ <a href="syntax.html#contents">contents</a>
+ of the
+ <span class="element">b</span>
+ element that contains its corresponding
+ "<code><i></code>"
+ start tag.</p>
+ <pre><b>foo <i>bar</b> baz</i></pre>
+ </div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="syntax-attributes" class="section">
@@ -363,11 +367,7 @@
"<code title="U+002F SOLIDUS">/</code>",
"<code title="U+003D EQUALS SIGN">=</code>",
the control characters,
- and any characters that are not defined by Unicode.
- Attribute names may be written with any mix of lowercase and
- uppercase letters that are an
- <a href="terminology.html#ascii-case-insensitive">ASCII case-insensitive</a>
- match for the attribute’s name.</li>
+ and any characters that are not defined by Unicode.</li>
<li><dfn id="xml-compatible">XML-compatible</dfn>
attribute names are those that match the
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#NT-Name"><code>Name</code></a> production defined in
Index: documents.html
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retrieving revision 1.4
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diff -u -d -r1.4 -r1.5
--- documents.html 20 Jul 2009 22:44:23 -0000 1.4
+++ documents.html 31 Jul 2009 08:34:42 -0000 1.5
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@
</li>
<li id="documents-toc"><a href="documents.html#documents">2. Conformant documents</a>
</li>
+<li id="case-insensitivity-toc"><a href="documents.html#case-insensitivity">3. Case insensitivity in tag names and attribute names</a>
+</li>
</ul>
</div>
<p>The term
@@ -136,6 +138,51 @@
and must not
<a href="syntax.html#omitted">omit tags</a>).</p>
</div>
+ <div id="case-insensitivity" class="section">
+ <h2>5.3. Case insensitivity in tag names and attribute names <a class="hash" href="#case-insensitivity">#</a> <a class="toc-bak" href="Overview.html#case-insensitivity-toc">T</a></h2>
+ <p>In
+ <a href="documents.html#syntax-document-html">documents in the HTML syntax</a>:</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="syntax.html#tag-name">Tag names</a>
+ for
+ <a href="elements.html#html-elements">HTML elements</a>
+ may be written with any mix of lowercase and
+ uppercase letters that are an
+ <a href="terminology.html#ascii-case-insensitive">ASCII case-insensitive</a>
+ match for the names of the elements given in the
+ <a href="elements.html">HTML elements</a>
+ section of this document; tag names are
+ case-insensitive.</li>
+ <li><a href="syntax.html#attribute-name">Attribute names</a>
+ for
+ <a href="elements.html#html-elements">HTML elements</a>
+ may be written with any mix of lowercase and uppercase
+ letters that are an
+ <a href="terminology.html#ascii-case-insensitive">ASCII case-insensitive</a>
+ match for the names of the attributes given in the
+ <a href="elements.html">HTML elements</a>
+ section of this document; attribute names are
+ case-insensitive.</li>
+ </ul>
+ <p>In
+ <a href="documents.html#syntax-document-xml">documents in the XML syntax</a>:</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="syntax.html#tag-name">Tag names</a>
+ for
+ <a href="elements.html#html-elements">HTML elements</a>
+ must exactly match the names of the elements given in the
+ <a href="elements.html">HTML elements</a>
+ section of this document; tag names are
+ case-sensitive.</li>
+ <li><a href="syntax.html#attribute-name">Attribute names</a>
+ for
+ <a href="elements.html#html-elements">HTML elements</a>
+ must exactly match the names of the attributes given in the
+ <a href="elements.html">HTML elements</a>
+ section of this document; attribute names are
+ case-sensitive.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </div>
</div>
<hr class="footerbreak"></hr>
<div class="nav">
Index: spec.html
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RCS file: /sources/public/html5/markup/spec.html,v
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diff -u -d -r1.75 -r1.76
--- spec.html 30 Jul 2009 17:08:49 -0000 1.75
+++ spec.html 31 Jul 2009 08:34:42 -0000 1.76
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@
<a href="#syntax">6. HTML syntax</a>
</li>
<li>
-<a href="#elements">7. Elements</a>
+<a href="#elements">7. HTML elements</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#common-models">8. Common content models</a>
@@ -163,6 +163,9 @@
<li id="documents-toc">
<a href="#documents">5.2. Conformant documents</a>
</li>
+<li id="case-insensitivity-toc">
+<a href="#case-insensitivity">5.3. Case insensitivity in tag names and attribute names</a>
+</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li id="syntax-toc">
@@ -201,7 +204,7 @@
</ul>
</li>
<li id="elements-toc">
-<a href="#elements">7. Elements</a>
+<a href="#elements">7. HTML elements</a>
<ul>
<li id="a-toc">
<a href="#a"><span class="element">a</span> – <span class="shortdesc">hyperlink</span></a>
@@ -814,6 +817,9 @@
<li id="documents-toc">
<a href="#documents">2. Conformant documents</a>
</li>
+<li id="case-insensitivity-toc">
+<a href="#case-insensitivity">3. Case insensitivity in tag names and attribute names</a>
+</li>
</ul>
</div>
<p>The term
@@ -933,6 +939,56 @@
and must not
<a href="#omitted">omit tags</a>).</p>
</div>
+ <div id="case-insensitivity" class="section">
+ <h2>5.3. Case insensitivity in tag names and attribute names <a class="hash" href="#case-insensitivity">#</a> <a class="toc-bak" href="#case-insensitivity-toc">T</a>
+</h2>
+ <p>In
+ <a href="#syntax-document-html">documents in the HTML syntax</a>:</p>
+ <ul>
+<li>
+<a href="#tag-name">Tag names</a>
+ for
+ <a href="#html-elements">HTML elements</a>
+ may be written with any mix of lowercase and
+ uppercase letters that are an
+ <a href="#ascii-case-insensitive">ASCII case-insensitive</a>
+ match for the names of the elements given in the
+ <a href="#elements">HTML elements</a>
+ section of this document; tag names are
+ case-insensitive.</li>
+ <li>
+<a href="#attribute-name">Attribute names</a>
+ for
+ <a href="#html-elements">HTML elements</a>
+ may be written with any mix of lowercase and uppercase
+ letters that are an
+ <a href="#ascii-case-insensitive">ASCII case-insensitive</a>
+ match for the names of the attributes given in the
+ <a href="#elements">HTML elements</a>
+ section of this document; attribute names are
+ case-insensitive.</li>
+ </ul>
+<p>In
+ <a href="#syntax-document-xml">documents in the XML syntax</a>:</p>
+ <ul>
+<li>
+<a href="#tag-name">Tag names</a>
+ for
+ <a href="#html-elements">HTML elements</a>
+ must exactly match the names of the elements given in the
+ <a href="#elements">HTML elements</a>
+ section of this document; tag names are
+ case-sensitive.</li>
+ <li>
+<a href="#attribute-name">Attribute names</a>
+ for
+ <a href="#html-elements">HTML elements</a>
+ must exactly match the names of the attributes given in the
+ <a href="#elements">HTML elements</a>
+ section of this document; attribute names are
+ case-sensitive.</li>
+ </ul>
+</div>
</div>
<div id="syntax" class="section">
<h2>6. HTML syntax <a class="hash" href="#syntax">#</a> <a class="toc-bak" href="#syntax-toc">T</a>
@@ -1107,9 +1163,13 @@
<p>An element’s <dfn id="content-model" title="content-model">content model</dfn> defines the element’s structure: What
<a href="#contents">contents</a> (if any) the element can
contain, as well as what attributes (if any) the element can
- have. The <a href="#elements">HTML elements</a> section of this
- specification defines the content models for all elements.
- An element must not contain <a href="#contents">contents</a>
+ have. The
+ <a href="#elements">HTML elements</a>
+ section of this specification defines the content models for
+ all of the elements that are part of the
+ <a href="#html-language">HTML language</a>.
+ An element must not contain
+ <a href="#contents">contents</a>
or attributes that are not part of its content model.</p>
<p>The
<dfn id="contents" title="contents">contents</dfn>
@@ -1166,17 +1226,14 @@
<li>
<dfn id="tag-name" title="syntax-tag-name">Tag names</dfn>
are used within element start tags and end tags to
- give the element’s name. HTML elements all have names that
- only use characters in the range
+ give the element’s name.
+ <a href="#html-elements">HTML elements</a>
+ all have names that only use characters in the range
<code title="U+0030 DIGIT ZERO–U+0039 DIGIT NINE">0–9</code>,
<code title="U+0061 LATIN SMALL LETTER A–U+007A LATIN SMALL LETTER Z">a–z</code>,
<code title="U+0041 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A–U+005A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z">A–Z</code>,
and the character
- "<code title="U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS">-</code>".
- Tag names may be written with any mix of
- lowercase and uppercase letters that, when converted to
- all-lowercase, matches the element’s tag name; tag names are
- case-insensitive.</li>
+ "<code title="U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS">-</code>".</li>
<li>
<dfn id="syntax-start-tags">Start tags</dfn>
consist of the following parts, in exactly the following
@@ -1240,38 +1297,42 @@
(which <a href="#omitted" title="syntax-tag-omission">might be
implied in certain cases</a>).</li>
</ul>
-<p>If an
- <a href="#syntax-elements">element</a>
- has both a
- <a href="#syntax-start-tags">start tag</a>
- and an
- <a href="#syntax-end-tags">end tag</a>,
- its end tag must be contained within the
- <a href="#contents">contents</a>
- of the same element in which its start tag is contained.
- An
- <a href="#syntax-end-tags">end tag</a>
- that is not contained within the same
- <a href="#contents">contents</a>
- as its
- <a href="#syntax-start-tags">start tag</a>
- is said to be a
- <dfn id="misnested-tag" title="misnested-tag">misnested tag</dfn>.</p>
- <div class="example">
- <p>In the following example, the
- "<code></i></code>"
+<div id="misnesting" class="section">
+ <h2>6.3.1. Misnested tags <a class="hash" href="#misnesting">#</a>
+</h2>
+ <p>If an
+ <a href="#syntax-elements">element</a>
+ has both a
+ <a href="#syntax-start-tags">start tag</a>
+ and an
+ <a href="#syntax-end-tags">end tag</a>,
+ its end tag must be contained within the
+ <a href="#contents">contents</a>
+ of the same element in which its start tag is contained.
+ An
<a href="#syntax-end-tags">end tag</a>
- is a
- <a href="#misnested-tag">misnested tag</a>,
- because it is not contained
- within the
+ that is not contained within the same
<a href="#contents">contents</a>
- of the
- <span class="element">b</span>
- element that contains its corresponding
- "<code><i></code>"
- start tag.</p>
- <pre><b>foo <i>bar</b> baz</i></pre>
+ as its
+ <a href="#syntax-start-tags">start tag</a>
+ is said to be a
+ <dfn id="misnested-tag" title="misnested-tag">misnested tag</dfn>.</p>
+ <div class="example">
+ <p>In the following example, the
+ "<code></i></code>"
+ <a href="#syntax-end-tags">end tag</a>
+ is a
+ <a href="#misnested-tag">misnested tag</a>,
+ because it is not contained
+ within the
+ <a href="#contents">contents</a>
+ of the
+ <span class="element">b</span>
+ element that contains its corresponding
+ "<code><i></code>"
+ start tag.</p>
+ <pre><b>foo <i>bar</b> baz</i></pre>
+ </div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="syntax-attributes" class="section">
@@ -1308,11 +1369,7 @@
"<code title="U+002F SOLIDUS">/</code>",
"<code title="U+003D EQUALS SIGN">=</code>",
the control characters,
- and any characters that are not defined by Unicode.
- Attribute names may be written with any mix of lowercase and
- uppercase letters that are an
- <a href="#ascii-case-insensitive">ASCII case-insensitive</a>
- match for the attribute’s name.</li>
+ and any characters that are not defined by Unicode.</li>
<li>
<dfn id="xml-compatible">XML-compatible</dfn>
attribute names are those that match the
@@ -1962,8 +2019,12 @@
</div>
</div>
<div id="elements" class="section">
- <h2>7. Elements <a class="hash" href="#elements">#</a> <a class="toc-bak" href="#elements-toc">T</a>
+ <h2>7. HTML elements <a class="hash" href="#elements">#</a> <a class="toc-bak" href="#elements-toc">T</a>
</h2>
+<p>The complete set of
+ <dfn id="html-elements" title="html-elements">HTML elements</dfn>
+ is the set of elements described in the following
+ sections.</p>
<div class="toc">
<ul>
<li id="a-toc">
Index: elements.html
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--- elements.html 29 Jul 2009 11:23:43 -0000 1.14
+++ elements.html 31 Jul 2009 08:34:42 -0000 1.15
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
-<title>HTML5: Elements</title>
+<title>HTML5: HTML elements</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css"></link>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="W3C-ED.css" type="text/css"></link>
</head>
@@ -12,7 +12,10 @@
<span class="nav-next"><a href="common-models.html">common-models »</a></span>
</div>
<div id="elements" class="section">
- <h2>7. Elements <a class="hash" href="#elements">#</a> <a class="toc-bak" href="Overview.html#elements-toc">T</a></h2><div class="toc">
+ <h2>7. HTML elements <a class="hash" href="#elements">#</a> <a class="toc-bak" href="Overview.html#elements-toc">T</a></h2><p>The complete set of
+ <dfn id="html-elements" title="html-elements">HTML elements</dfn>
+ is the set of elements described in the following
+ sections.</p><div class="toc">
<ul>
<li id="a-toc"><a href="a.html#a"><span class="element">a</span> – <span class="shortdesc">hyperlink</span></a>
</li>
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