[whatwg] Update to the Adoption Agency Algorithm
Lachlan Hunt
lachlan.hunt at lachy.id.au
Fri Feb 3 03:21:28 PST 2006
Gervase Markham wrote:
> Lachlan Hunt wrote:
>> Errors caused by the result of duplicate IDs either in the markup or
>> indirectly as a result of badly nested elements can be fixed by a quick
>> visit to the validator (or other conformance tool) or by making use of
>> any or all of those tools I mentioned above.
>
> It's much harder to spot them when they are dynamically generated by
> e.g. a cloneNode operation. You can't submit your browser's DOM tree to
> the validator...
Any markup that causes a browser to automatically clone a node will be
non-conformant and will be flagged as erroneous by a validator. Of
course it won't say duplicate ID, but it will give errors about badly
nested elements.
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Lachlan Hunt
http://lachy.id.au/
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