- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:44:47 +0100
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Cc: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>, public-html@w3.org, www-svg@w3.org
Henri Sivonen wrote: > I think a toggle between real source and reserialized source on the View > Source window, as Jonas suggested, would make sense. There are problems that make simply reserialising the source less valuable to developers than you might think. Consider this fragment: <p>A paragraph with <a href="#">a link</p> <p>Another paragraph</p> When that's parsed, the <a> element is cloned so the second paragraph, and all subsequent markup until a </a> is found. Simply reserialising would result in: <p>A paragraph with <a href="#">a link</a></p><a href="#"> <p>Another paragraph</p></a> (I used the HTML5lib parse tree viewer [1] to get that. I didn't check the spec to make sure that's totally correct) However, a more useful solution to cleaning up the source would be to simply close the <a> element at the end of the first paragraph and not clone it for subsequent content. [1] http://james.html5.org/parsetree.html -- Lachlan Hunt - Opera Software http://lachy.id.au/ http://www.opera.com/
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