Re: prose content and del elements (typo?)

Ok, yes, it's getting through to me. Still find it a bit of a tangled
description. Is the "ancestors of the del element" important? Perhaps
in the context of that paragraph it can be omitted in the interests of
simplicity and clarity, i.e. just say "del elements and their
descendants must not be counted" (as fulfilling the requirement for
prose content).



On Jan 21, 2008 3:00 AM, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi> wrote:
>
> On Jan 19, 2008, at 11:43, Ben Boyle wrote:
>
> > http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#prose1
> >
> > This sentence:
> > For the purposes of this requirement, del elements and their
> > descendants must not be counted as contributing to the ancestors of
> > the del element.
> >
> > Is that last "del" a typo? Should it be something like this:
> > For the purposes of this requirement, del elements and their
> > descendants must not be counted as contributing to the ancestors of
> > any element.
>
>
> I think it isn't a typo. Descendants of a del element do contribute to
> the content models of their ancestors that are still descendants of
> the same del. They don't contribute to the ancestors of the del.
>
> --
> Henri Sivonen
> hsivonen@iki.fi
> http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
>
>
>

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