[whatwg] Transparent Content
Ian Hickson
ian at hixie.ch
Sat Oct 17 02:52:51 PDT 2009
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Yuvalik Webdesign wrote:
>
> I'll give it one more go. ;-)
>
> Perhaps you could leave the existing sentence, but add:
>
> "In short; a transparent element must have the same content model as its
> parent."
>
> Or something to that effect?
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>
> That's still not accurate, though. ^_^ I mean, it's *correct*, but it's
> not a summarization of the existing sentence (which is implied by "in
> short"). Ian pointed out how a transparent element can have children
> that would match the content model of the parent, but that wouldn't be
> correct if simply inserted into the parent (the example with <unique>).
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Yuvalik Webdesign wrote:
>
> Hmm, yes. Oh well. I give up.
You see why I ended up with the complicated text that's in the spec now. :-)
> It's not that important anyway. And with the added example I am sure it
> will be ok.
Ok.
Cheers,
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