- From: Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com>
- Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 09:18:53 -0500
- To: Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck@webbackplane.com>
- CC: Sebastian Heath <sebastian.heath@gmail.com>, public-rdfa-wg@w3.org
Received on Thursday, 5 August 2010 15:04:32 UTC
I am sympathetic to the original proposal in this issue. However, it raised the following concern for me: On 8/5/2010 8:47 AM, Mark Birbeck wrote: > > I'd be interested to hear what Toby thinks on this, but it would seem > that if you really *must* have an empty string then you should do > this: > > <span property="p1" content=""></span> > In this case, I believe there are no child nodes at all. Not sure what my parser would do if it encountered the following: <span property="p1"></span> No child elements are text nodes, so it would be a plain literal, but since there are no descendant nodes in the DOM at all... the value of that plain literal could be undefined or "". Obviously the supposition is that the plain literal starts as "" and then text node values would get appended to it. But we don't say that. We probably should. -- Shane P. McCarron Phone: +1 763 786-8160 x120 Managing Director Fax: +1 763 786-8180 ApTest Minnesota Inet: shane@aptest.com
Received on Thursday, 5 August 2010 15:04:32 UTC