- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 16:49:42 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Elliotte Harold wrote: > > The contents of the element must be placed between just after the start > tag (which might be implied, in certain cases) and just before the end > tag (which again, might be implied in certain cases). > > I wonder about the "just after" and "just before". Is there something in the > middle that is not just after and just before? I guess not. > I think it might be clearer to state, "The contents of the element must > be placed between the start tag (which might be implied, in certain > cases) and the end tag (which again, might be implied in certain > cases)." or "The contents of the element must be placed after the start > tag (which might be implied, in certain cases) and before the end tag > (which again, might be implied in certain cases)." This seems like minor word quibbling. We're not even remotely stable enough yet to worry about minor wording issues like this. :-) > and what about the word "placed"? That seems to suggest that one could > put this content somewhere else. I think of it more as the placement > defines what is and is not the content so how about, > > "The content of the element is all the text between the start tag (which > might be implied, in certain cases) and the end tag (which again, might > be implied in certain cases)." That has no normative conformance criteria (it's just a definition). That might be a useful definition if we were defining a parser, but here we are defining a serialisation format, so what's important is to give the conformance criteria for authors writing documents. Thanks for the feedback, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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