- From: Philip Taylor <pjt47@cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 18:20:39 +0100
- To: public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org
- CC: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>, Meri Kovach <meri.kovach@gmail.com>
Ivan Herman wrote:
> Meri Kovach wrote:
>> <table>
>> <tr>
>> <span about="#2105555" typeof="foaf:Person">
>> <td>1</td>
>> <td><span property="foaf:firstName">Meri</span></td>
>> <td><span property="foaf:familyName">Kovac</span></td>
>> </span>
>> </tr>
>> </table>
> [...]
> The way the distiller works is that if hits
> an XML (not XHTML!) error, it then switches (if allowed in the command
> arguments) to an HTML5 parser and attempts to run the code through that
> one, too. I guess (but I do not know) that the HTML5 parser attempts to
> make some sense in the erroneous code and I would presume it will
> simply remove the <span> element from the DOM tree it produces.
That guess is almost right - with invalid input like this, the HTML5
parser moves the <span> to just before the <table>, so it's equivalent to:
<span about="#2105555" typeof="foaf:Person"></span>
<table>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
...
</tr>
</table>
(You can test how html5lib parses HTML into a DOM tree using
<http://james.html5.org/parsetree.html>)
--
Philip Taylor
pjt47@cam.ac.uk
Received on Friday, 22 May 2009 17:21:21 UTC