- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 23:30:30 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, L. David Baron wrote: > > On Monday 2005-10-31 10:53 +1100, Lachlan Hunt wrote: > > The current web-apps draft: > > > > | For styling languages that consist of pure text, user agents must use > > | a concatenation of the contents of all the text nodes and CDATA nodes > > | that are direct children of the style element (ignoring any other > > | nodes such as comments or elements), in tree order. > > The specification should be clearer that for SGML-based documents (as > opposed to XML-based documents), the parsing rules may mean that things > that look like child nodes aren't actually child nodes (since STYLE has > CDATA parsing according to the HTML4 DTD, and is generally implemented > far closer to that than to normal parsing). If you specify anything > precisely regarding this, please write testcases to make sure it matches > what's actually implemented, which is probably what's required by the > Web. The HTML5 parsing section will cover this in detail. Note that HTML5 is not based on SGML any more. It will have its own independent parsing section. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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