[whatwg] [WA1] Missing state transitions?
Ian Hickson
ian at hixie.ch
Thu Jul 20 20:55:36 PDT 2006
On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Stewart Brodie wrote:
>
> I'm seeing inconsistent behaviour in my test pages due to an odd transition
> in the "before head" state. Consider these documents: one completely empty
> (i.e. the first token delivered is the end-of-file token); another with just
> "<html>" as its content, the third with content "<html></html>"). These
> generate very different trees:
>
> Empty content: <html> <head> </head> <body> </body> </html>
> <html> : <html> <head> </head> <body> </body> </html>
> <html></html>: <html> </html>
>
> Surely all three should build to the same thing? Or is this another example
> of well-formedness overriding the implicit element generation? The third
> tree's brevity is caused because the </html> tag in "before head" is just
> causing a switch to the trailing end phase. It could just follow the
> "anything else" case (and that would require "in body" to handle </HTML> too
> (to act as if an eng tag for BODY had been seen and then reprocess the
> current token - just like an end-of-file token).
You are correct. Fixed.
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