Re: [css-variables] Serialization of custom properties vs. comments

On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 6:44 AM, Simon Sapin <simon.sapin@exyr.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think that section 4.1.1 Serializing Custom Properties should require that
> the serialization "round-trips". That is, tokenizing it again should give
> the same sequence of tokens.
>
> In particular, this requires either preserving all CSS comments and their
> position when parsing, or inserting comments during serialization between
> "problematic" pairs of of tokens. For example, the following tokenizes as
> two consecutive identifiers without intervening whitespace:
>
>     solid/**/green
>
> They would become a single identifier if serialized naively.
>
> Syntax 3 has a Serialization section about this:
> http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-syntax/#serialization

I'm just going to explicitly lean on Syntax the moment that gets
approved as FPWD.  It's not worth pretending this is a separate
document and duplicating anything from it.

~TJ