[whatwg] [WA1] Title Element Content Model
Anne van Kesteren
fora at annevankesteren.nl
Sat Apr 9 00:06:01 PDT 2005
Lachlan Hunt wrote:
> | In HTML (as opposed to XHTML), the title element must not contain
> | content other than text and entities; user agents must parse the
> | element so that entities are recognised and processed, but all other
> | markup is interpreted as literal text.
>
> I think that should be changed to state:
>
> "... but, for backwards compatibility, all other markup (such as
> elements and comments) should be interpreted as literal text."
Why? Its content model is #PCDATA:
<http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#h-7.4.2>
You also don't want to introduce this in standards mode or so as you
don't want to make parsing documents harder. You do not want to
introduce more quirks.
> | In XHTML, the title element must not contain any elements.
>
> I disagree with this. XHTML 2 has been updated to allow markup within
> the title element and I think this XHTML should too. Since we can
> change the content models for XHTML, I see no reason not too.
It would work as current UAs (I tested in Mozilla) ignore elements
inside TITLE.
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Anne van Kesteren
<http://annevankesteren.nl/>
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