[whatwg] Experiments in end-tag attributes
Ian Hickson
ian at hixie.ch
Sun Oct 11 18:13:40 PDT 2009
On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Schuyler Duveen wrote:
>
> The html-parsing section of the spec and the browsers I've tested [1]
> seem to be doing the right thing, however I'd love if this was noted as
> a conforming pattern. Probably more testing is prudent.
>
> PROBLEM:
> <p id="something-here">
> [ massive bloviation and many inner tags
> <p>including
> Not-well indented p-tags
> </p>
> </p> <!-- ad hoc solution! comment: id="something-here" -->
>
> MORE ELEGANT ALTERNATIVE:
> <p id="something-here">
> ....
> </p id="something-here">
>
> If it was noted as specifically conformant, this could possibly help
> parsers in some cases, including the human variety.
I'd rather not do this, as there is no good way to map this to XML or the
DOM as far as I can tell.
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