[whatwg] Tag Soup: Blocks-in-inlines

[Henri Sivonen]

On Jan 27, 2006, at 09:16, Ian Hickson wrote:

> In that case I don't understand your proposal.
>
> We need something that, given this:
>
>    <em><p>X
>
> ...results in this DOM:
>
>    BODY
>      EM
>        P
>
> ...and given this:
>
>    <em><p>X</em></p>
>
> ...results in this DOM:
>
>    BODY
>      EM
>      P
>        EM
>
> Given that "X" can be arbitrarily long, how do you generate the  
> above DOMs
> using your system without sacrificing incremental rendering?
>
> I understood your system to be:
>
>    [TOKENISER] --> [PREPROCESSOR] --> [PARSER]
>
> ...where the preprocessor rearranges tokens, and the parser creates  
> the
> DOM. How does your system handle the cases above without blocking  
> in the
> preprocessor stage to wait for the end of X?

By producing the second DOM in both cases.

Based on Hyatt's comments, I take it that this would make the DOM too  
heavy and would not work.

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