[whatwg] Namespaces and tag names in the HTML parser

[Ian Hickson]

On Wed, 10 Jul 2013, Peter Occil wrote:
> >
> > Short of explicitly putting "in the HTML namespace" at every 
> > occurrence of this, I don't know how to fix this. Putting "in the HTML 
> > namespace" everywhere is a non-starter, there's something like ten 
> > thousand occurrences of element names in the spec. (Literally. Ten 
> > thousand.)
> 
> I don't mean in the entire HTML spec, I only mean within the tree 
> construction section, and then only where it eliminates ambiguity, such 
> as "while the current node is not a tr element or an html element", as I 
> stated previously.  I agree it's silly to include the words "in the HTML 
> namespace" everywhere in the spec.

I don't really understand why that case is ambiguous, but thousands of 
others aren't. Can you elaborate on what the difference is?

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