Re: Distributed Extensibility

On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 15:42 +0300, Henri Sivonen wrote:
> On Aug 2, 2007, at 18:16, Sam Ruby wrote:
[...]
> >     * The notion of “enclosing element” is problematic in the face  
> > of adoption agency algorithms and the like.  The prudent thing to  
> > do is to define any case where reparenting would change the meaning  
> > of any element to be a (recoverable) error.  This would affect very  
> > few users or documents.  It would be a bitch to code in a  
> > conformance checker, but that’s not the spec’s writer’s concern.  :-)
> 
> Reparenting is already an error.

Care to elaborate? If anybody has a moment to walk me/us thru the
relevant parts of the spec, or just point to it, I'd appreciate it.

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Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/

Received on Friday, 3 August 2007 17:56:57 UTC