- From: Sjoerd Visscher <sjoerd@w3future.com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 01:25:19 +0200
Ian Hickson wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 sjoerd at w3future.com wrote:
>
>>>>It would mean that leaving the attribute out violates a conformance
>>>>requirement, making the document non-conformant.
>>>
>>>...the advantage of which being...?
>>>
>>>I don't understand the point in making this code:
>>>
>>> // this element will be used later
>>> var meta = document.createElement('meta');
>>>
>>>...non-conformant.
>>
>>Elements cannot be validated until they are inserted in the document,
>>because the type depends on the position in the document. I'd say it is
>>non-conformant to add a meta element without attributes to a document.
>
>
> I don't see why you can't validate an orphan fragment. Clearly the spec
> needs to be clarified a bit, but it doesn't seem impossible.
You could with a handwritten html 5 validator, but not with a generic
validation tool, because elements with the same name can have different
types in different locations in the document.
--
Sjoerd Visscher
http://w3future.com/weblog/
Received on Monday, 18 July 2005 16:25:19 UTC