- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:55:35 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, David Flanagan wrote: > > The HTML parsing algorithm frequently includes directions like "act as > if an end tag with the tag name 'p' had been seen". > > Suppose the insertion mode is "in caption" mode. It tells me to process > a token using the rules for "in body" mode. Then, while processing a > token using those rules, I need to act as if a </p> tag or </option> tag > had been seen. My question: what insertion mode do I use to process > that synthetic end tag? Doesn't matter. Either "in body" or "in caption" will have the same effect here. > Perhaps the spec could be modified to add a definition for "act as if" > along with the definition for "using the rules for". I've added a paragraph that mentions a definition for "act as if". I haven't actually hyperlinked all the uses of the term as there's a lot of them. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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