[whatwg] Augmenting HTML parser to recognize new elements

Julian Reschke julian.reschke at gmx.de
Wed Jan 18 14:08:34 PST 2012


On 2012-01-18 22:55, Dimitri Glazkov wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Adam Barth<w3c at adambarth.com>  wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Dimitri Glazkov<dglazkov at chromium.org>  wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Dimitri Glazkov<dglazkov at chromium.org>  wrote:
>>>> Ah, that's a good question. This also must be specified. It should
>>>> depend on the parent of the<content>  element. If the parent is shadow
>>>> root or<table>, then it should make<tr>  the child of<content>.
>>>> Otherwise, it should use foster parenting as usual.
>>>
>>> Oops, not "foster parenting", but "ignore" as you mentioned. Still
>>> getting through the details of the parsing spec.
>>
>> There's also some subtly w.r.t. the pending character tokens.
>>
>> More generally, I think we'd all be much more sane if the HTML parsing
>> algorithm was specified in the HTML living standard rather than
>> modified ad-hoc in a number of different documents.
>
> That makes sense, but how will we handle the fact that the elements in
> the algorithm aren't part of the HTML specification?
> ...

The algorithm should be specified so that all future elements follow the 
same parsing rules, thus no further changes are required.

Best regards, Julian



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