[whatwg] Content Model Restrictions on table>tr in HTML

Bjoern Hoehrmann derhoermi at gmx.net
Mon Dec 4 05:20:50 PST 2006


* Ian Hickson wrote:
>> You should request removal of the section. It is just a non-normative
>> discussion of implications of the parsing algorithm despite the claim
>> that "extra restrictions" are being defined and the misuse of RFC2119
>> keywords. As the thread shows, such discussion is unlikely to be com-
>> plete, but likely to mislead and confuse. 
>
>Actually, it's the only place that defines what the syntax is. It's
>rather important! The parser section defines how to parse and report
>errors, but it doesn't give conformance criteria for documents and
>authoring tools.

That may be so. I am saying is it is a very bad idea to organize the
specification this way.
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