[imps] Tree construction question

[Ian Hickson]

On Sat, 6 Feb 2010, Rob Jellinghaus wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Jonas Sicking <jonas at sicking.cc> wrote:
> >On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk at opera.com> wrote:
> >> The idea of the parsing algorithm is not that any input yields a 
> >> valid output. It just gives back a tree. Whether that tree is 
> >> conforming is orthogonal. A simple example of this would be unknown 
> >> elements not being removed (or transformed).
> >
> >Also note that Firefox does not yet by default attempt to implement the 
> >HTML5 parsing algorithm. We still use the parser we've used since 
> >Firefox 1.0. Back in the days this parser indeed tried to always output 
> >a valid HTML DOM. This idea was eventually abandoned because it turned 
> >out not to be practical and just caused more confusion and trouble than 
> >it helped anyone. So even this parser can these days output invalid DOM 
> >trees.
> 
> Thanks, Anne and Jonas.  Good to know the impossible is not necessary 
> :-)
> 
> It would be helpful if the HTML 5 spec added a sentence to that 
> non-normative paragraph, explicitly stating the output of that example, 
> and its anticipated noncompliance.  That would head off future 
> confusion.

Done.

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