- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 16:22:19 +0200
- To: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
* Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: >http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html: > > The meaning of input that cannot be tokenized or parsed is undefined > > in CSS 2.1. > >And then http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#parsing-errors says: > > In some cases, user agents must ignore part of an illegal style > > sheet. This specification defines ignore to mean that the user agent > > parses the illegal part (in order to find its beginning and end), but > > otherwise acts as if it had not been there. > >It seems to me ignoring something is equivalent to defining it as having >no meaning (at least to the CSS 2.1-conforming implementation). Yes, this is a well-known contradiction in the specification (that it says the meaning of some cases is undefined, but then goes on to de- fine error recovery rules for a subset of those cases, in other parts than the one you quote). The class of errors under discussion is handled by the "Malformed declarations" recovery rule despite the first quote above. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Weinh. Str. 22 · Telefon: +49(0)621/4309674 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 68309 Mannheim · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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