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

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Mon Dec 4 19:52:57 PST 2006


On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
> 
> [...] section 9.2 defines syntax and parsing rules together.

No, it doesn't. It doesn't define the syntax at all. It defines how to 
parse the syntax, and what to report as a syntax error, but that section 
has no normative criteria that apply to documents.


> I may be able to make additional suggestions once someone showed me an 
> example of HTML syntax where a 'p' element has a 'pre' child element.

Such a document is impossible to construct declaratively with the HTML 
format, it can only be declaratively constructed with the XML syntax.

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