[whatwg] Clarity of the tag open state

Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi
Tue Jun 19 07:12:42 PDT 2007


> If the next input character is not a U+002F SOLIDUS (/) character,  
> emit a U+003C LESS-THAN SIGN character token and switch to the data  
> state to process the next input character.

This would be clearer if it used the usual wording "consume the next  
input character" and "reconsume the current input character in the  
data state".

(I just found out I wrote a bug due to my careless reading of the  
unusual wording.)

-- 
Henri Sivonen
hsivonen at iki.fi
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/





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