[whatwg] [WebApps] Entity consumption

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Wed Jun 13 15:50:37 PDT 2007


On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, J. King wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 18:53:31 -0400, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> > On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, J. King wrote:
> > > 
> > > There are two paragraphs at the end of section 8.2.1.1:
> > > 
> > > # When an end tag token is emitted, the content model
> > > # flag must be switched to the PCDATA state.
> > > #
> > > # When an end tag token is emitted with attributes,
> > > # that is a parse error.
> > > 
> > > They don't seem to make sense in context; are they editing 
> > > artefacts?
> > 
> > No, they're intentional... why don't they make sense? They're 
> > additional requirements on the tokenisation step.
> 
> I was confused because I thought they belonged to section 8.2.1.1.  I 
> see now that they actually belong to 8.2.1, but it's kind of difficult 
> to see that at a glance---8.2.1.1 is so long that the indention gets 
> pretty lost.  Perhaps the 8.2.1.1 section should be after those two 
> paragraphs---or perhaps the two paragraphs should be moved to before the 
> list of parsing states.  The paragraphs seem to fit in better with the 
> more general nature of the beginning of the tokenization section, I 
> think.

Ok, moved them up.

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