Re: [whatwg] Namespaces and tag names in the HTML parser

• From: Peter Occil <poccil14@gmail.com>
• Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 02:10:25 -0400
• To: "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>
• Cc: WHATWG <whatwg@whatwg.org>
• Message-ID: <101F8E57FFCE4F44BBB459F1F176A217@PeterPC>

> Short of explicitly putting "in the HTML namespace" at every occurrence of
> this, I don't know how to fix this. Putting "in the HTML namespace"
> everywhere is a non-starter, there's something like ten thousand
> occurrences of element names in the spec. (Literally. Ten thousand.)

I don't mean in the entire HTML spec, I only mean within the tree
construction section, and then only where it eliminates ambiguity, such as
"while the current node is not a tr element or an html element", as I stated
previously.  I agree it's silly to include the words "in the HTML namespace"
everywhere in the spec.

(Sorry, I accidentally sent this only to Ian before.) 

Received on Wednesday, 10 July 2013 06:11:33 UTC