[whatwg] Form-associated elements and the parser

Tue Dec 3 10:39:24 PST 2013

On Thu, 21 Nov 2013, Ryosuke Niwa wrote:
> 
> A start tag whose tag name is "isindex"
> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/tree-construction.html#isindex
> 
> Right now, form element pointer is not null in the following example, so we end up losing isindex element entirely.
> <!DOCTYPE html>
> <html><body><form><template>a<isindex></isindex>b</template>

Hm. It's worse than that: <form><template><form> will drop the inner 
<form>, because the form element pointer is set.

So, there's several ways we could fix this. We could simply say <template> 
isn't valid inside <form> and ignore the whole problem.

Or, we could have a form element pointer stack that parallels the 
template stack.

I guess the latter is best for authors. How do implementors feel about 
adding a new stack for the template stuff?

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