RE: [ACTION-487][ISSUE-97][ISSUE--118] HTML5 Defaults

>>> So when an ITS processors processing "within text", not having any 
>>> "within text" rules or inlne markup, consumes a DOM and sees a "span" 
>>> element in the HTML namespace - what "within text"
>>> property should it assume?

>> withinText='yes': Our defaults would apply to HTML5 and its XHTML representation.


> Sorry, I wasn't clear: the DOM with the "span" element can be created from 
> HTML5 in the XHTML representation - but also from XHTML. That is, if a tool 
> just "sees" the dom the tool doesn't know where it comes from.
> So should it assume from HTML5 (that is, withinText="yes") or from XHTML 
> (that is, withinText="no")?

I would say "yes" if the processor is an ITS2 processor.

I'm not sure why an ITS2 processor would see no "no" when it knows the DOM is coming from XHTML5.

-ys

Received on Friday, 19 April 2013 16:26:16 UTC