Re: Allowing nested <time> elements.

Thank you Mike for your informative reply, and for removing this constraint
from the validator!

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On 9 July 2015 at 20:08, Michael[tm] Smith <mike@w3.org> wrote:

> Ian Devlin <ian.devlin@gmail.com>, 2015-07-03 12:13 +0200:
> > Archived-At: <
> http://www.w3.org/mid/CAOYOhSvESKpwch7tK6tB06YxeM63UTSE44cM174JedmKRAJTtw@mail.gmail.com
> >
> >
> > There is, apparently, a constraint on the <time> element that forbids
> them
> > from being nested. This constraint is not mentioned in the specification
> > itself but I did find it mentioned in an old, out of date, document (
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/time.html#time-constraints). The W3C
> > validator also marks nested <time> elements as an error.
> ...
> > Does anyone know why this constraint was added?
>
> Hixie added that constraint in 2009 https://html5.org/r/3692 and then
> dropped it in 2011 https://html5.org/r/6783 when he briefly replaced the
> <time> element with the <data> element. A couple weeks later, he re-
> introduced a different <time> element https://html5.org/r/6827 that didn’t
> have that same constraint which the old <time> element had.
>
> > Is it still necessary?
>
> I think it’s not. Otherwise Hixie would have re-specced it with that
> constraint when he re-defined it in its current form.
>
> > Or is what I am saying irrelevant, that this contraint has been removed
> > from the spec. and the validator has not yet been updated?
>
> The validator hasn’t been updated. I added the code in 2009 to check that
> constraint around the same time Hixie initially added the constraint to the
> spec. And I haven’t touched that line of the code since.
>
> So thanks for catching it. It’s just a bug in the validator—or was, since
> I’ve fixed it just now in
>
> https://github.com/validator/validator/commit/44c7b8554d592f181dd0479160e8e02fde043886
> and pushed the fix to https://validator.w3.org/nu/
>
>   —Mike
>
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