[Bug 5522] The term "containing element" is not clear

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=5522





------- Comment #3 from johnarwe@us.ibm.com  2008-05-01 01:15 -------
You made at least one light bulb burn brightly there, Henry.  I read 'parent'
just fine wrt attribute because I'd recently been poring through XPath 1.0,
where that is indeed the relationship between attribute nodes and the element
nodes they annotate in the markup.

See http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xpath-19991116#dt-parent

Which spec uses/defines the 'owner' relationship between those same two
entities?  Xpath 1.0 points to DOM as being different, but
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-DOM-Level-1/level-one-core.html#ID-637646024 says
nothing about an owner relationship (having searched, not browsed).

Since these are older specs, it's possible the community has seen noted the
terminological discrepancies and converged on something consistent.  If this is
the case, I suspect the wg would certainly consider using it given a ptr to
same.

Received on Thursday, 1 May 2008 01:15:56 UTC