Re: [cssom] Unrecognized - request for more information

* Brian Kardell wrote:
>I think this basically gets into what such a proposal would have to say...
>We can work that out.   I'm merely looking for a really basic subset parse
>that gives us something more akin to a syntax tree or some nice intermediate
>meta structure based on "well formed" data.

You can easily add rules to the core syntax grammar that captures things
that the prose error recovery rules require to skip or otherwise ignore
in some structure (and then remove the redundant prose requirements). I
did this last time I made a parser, but naturally ran into problems with
the specification, which I reported and which the Working Group ignored.

There are also changes, last I checked, in CSS 2.1, such as the handling
of nesting constructs in selectors, that at the time nobody implemented,
so I saw little point in developing this into a proposal to add to the
specification; if I did, it would most likely be ignored anyway, or I'd
get "decided not to make these changes" mass mails without rationale, or
whatever the trend in process violations and treating people badly is.

As for actually exposing such information through browser APIs, I would
be rather unsure whether that is a good idea. If you have the gammar in
order, there are any number of parser generators that should make it
easy to roll your own, and you could offer a better API for the things
you might care about; the browser can only offer a rather unwieldy in-
terface (due to resource constraints and lack of very compelling use
cases to make this usable beyond just providing access).
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