[whatwg] "end body tag" parsing clarification

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Mon Dec 1 18:54:16 PST 2008


On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, Tommy Thorsen wrote:
>
> I've been looking at the parsing chapter of the HTML5 specification, and 
> I've found something which I don't think makes sense. The last two 
> sentences in the 'An end tag whose tag name is "body"' section in the 
> "in body" insertion mode says:
> 
>   Switch the insertion mode to "after body". Otherwise, ignore the 
> token.
> 
> The "Otherwise" does not really make sense in this context, does it? 
> Should that last sentence just be erased?

Wow yeah, that makes no sense. Removed. Thanks!

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