Re: [webcomponents] HTML Parsing and the <template> element

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 8:16 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa@webkit.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 7:31 PM, Brian Kardell <bkardell@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Then why not something like
>>
>> <template id="a">world</template>
>> <template id="b">hello <partial with="a"></template>
>
> Right. If we were to disallow nested templates, that's the way to go. The
> question is whether we should disallow nested templates or not.

Okay, I am changing my mind. I don't think we should gate this
discussion on whether nested <template> elements should be allowed.
First, it's a very drastic design decision that will do doubt hinder
the developers of templating libraries. Honestly, I wonder if we
should always aim to avoid making these types of decisions at a
platform level. Second, it possibly doesn't even matter.

If and only if we decide that the contents of <template> element MUST
be perceived as a string--not a DOM subtree--will we face the question
of disallowing nested templates. As demonstrated in IDEA 2, we can
still totally still produce usable--nested or not--inert chunks of
DOM, per initial requirements.

So I think we should get back to answering the question: is it crucial
that template contents are parsed as a character stream? From there,
we can walk either toward puzzling over nested templates or just
moving along, nothing to see here.

:DG<

>
> - Ryosuke
>

Received on Thursday, 9 February 2012 04:45:40 UTC