- From: Kurt Cagle <kurt.cagle@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 13:14:56 -0500
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Cc: Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>, public-html-xml@w3.org
- Message-ID: <AANLkTi=q2czoub1hF35VDfONePu7fDyGn8wsi4WBUvtB@mail.gmail.com>
Anne, what's the html5 parser behavior for <a:foo bar="bat" b:bin="beer" xmlns:a="nsa" xmlns:b="nsb">text</a:foo>? How would that be interpreted? On Jan 6, 2011 8:26 AM, "Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@opera.com> wrote: > On Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:10:31 +0100, Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> wrote: >> Assuming we're inside the an HTML <body> element and that no error >> correction has yet been required, the following content >> >> <div> >> <span>Text</span> >> </div> >> >> produces a DOM that is isomorphic to what an XML parser would >> produce for this content >> >> <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> >> <span>Text</span> >> </div> >> >> Is that right? > > Right. > > >> Does this content: >> >> <div> >> <para xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"> >> This is some text. >> </para> >> </div> >> >> produce something isomorphic to what an XML parser would produce for >> this: >> >> <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> >> <para> >> This is some text. >> </para> >> </div> > > Yes. The <para> element will also have an "xmlns" attribute in no > namespace (rather than the XMLNS namespace as would be the case in XML > processors with namespace support) specified with as value > "http://docbook.org/ns/docbook". > > >> And, moving into the way elements with specific local names are >> recognized, is this: >> >> <div> >> <para xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"> >> This is some <link>text</link>. >> </para> >> </div> >> >> Like this: >> >> <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> >> <para> >> This is some >> <link></link> >> text. >> </para> >> </div> > > Yes. Because <link> has no end tag in HTML. The same would happen if you > used e.g. <img> or <meta>. (<br> would be slightly different as </br> is > treated specially.) > > >> Or does more fixup occur, like ending the para too? (I'm experimenting >> with "inspect element" in Google Chrome 8.0.552.231 on the Mac to >> inform my guesses, but I don't assert anything about how Chrome deals >> with HTML5, so...) > > I believe Chrome has a pretty much compliant HTML5 parser since version 7. > > >> What about this: >> >> <div> >> <script type="application/xml"> >> <para xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"> >> This is a <link>link</link>. >> </para> >> </script> >> </div> >> >> Is it like this? >> >> <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> >> <script type="application/xml"> >> <para> >> This is a <link>link</link>. >> </para> >> </script> >> </div> > > Yes. > > >> Or can I get the content of the script parsed into the DOM object I >> might naively expect such that I can access it with JavaScript? > > You can pass it to a DOMParser object or some such. > > > -- > Anne van Kesteren > http://annevankesteren.nl/ >
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