Re: some conformance questions

On 2010-06-17 15:37, Steven Faulkner wrote:
>> A presentation by Daniel Glazman at XTech 2006 convinced me that empty
>> structures should be valid. Letting them be valid makes it easier to develop
>> editors>that maintain validity at each editing operation and don't allow
>> invalid intermediate states.
>
> That sounds reasonable, but what about cases where there are empty elements
> <h1>  for example in a published document?

The spec used to have a concept of "significant inline content", which 
handled many cases like these.  However, the concept proved too 
restrictive and infeasible.  I can't recall the exact details about its 
removal, but there should be discussions about its removal in the whatwg 
archives, some time in late 2007 or early 2008.

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Received on Thursday, 17 June 2010 14:35:19 UTC