[whatwg] input element's value should not be sanitized during parsing

[James Graham]

On 09/21/2010 10:12 AM, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> On 9/21/10 4:06 AM, James Graham wrote:
>> The concept of "Creating an Element" already exists [1] and is atomic,
>
> Where does it say that it's atomic? I don't see that anywhere (and in
> fact, the "create an element" code in the Gecko parser is most decidedly
> non-atomic). Now maybe the spec intends this to be an atomic operation;
> if so it needs to say that.

It is described as a single step in the spec, which I take to imply that 
it should behave as a single operation from the point of view of the 
rest of the spec. Of course I am not against this being made clearer.