- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:30:31 +0100
- To: Øyvind Stenhaug <oyvinds@opera.com>
- CC: www-style@w3.org
On Friday, March 25, 2011, 12:11:26 PM, Øyvind wrote: ØS> On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:37:20 +0100, fantasai ØS> <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote: >> While we're in this section, Arron and I noticed that the first paragraph >> of the first clearance example is self contradicting (B2 has no children, >> but is not empty?) ØS> Doesn't sound like a contradiction to me. CSS talks about the document ØS> tree as a tree of elements, and a child of an element is an element. ØS> http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/conform.html#doctree ØS> <p style="clear:both">So, as I understand it, this could be B2.</p> Right. The codument tree model considers elements as children and does not consider attributes or text content as children. Here is an element which has no children and *is* empty <hr style="clear:both" /> While the DOM considers attributes and text nodes as children. -- Chris Lilley Technical Director, Interaction Domain W3C Graphics Activity Lead, Fonts Activity Lead Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG Member, CSS, WebFonts, SVG Working Groups
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