[whatwg] Reading a start tag in "text" insertion mode

Thu Aug 15 20:24:13 PDT 2013

On Thu, 15 Aug 2013, Mohammad Al Houssami (Alumni) wrote:
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> I am building a parser incrementally by sets of elements (and not all at 
> the same time ) so while debugging I noticed that the text insertion 
> mode does not have a "anything else" branch. Lets assume my input is the 
> following: <title><head> The title start tag will lead us to the text 
> insertion mode. And then what should happen ?  The specifications don't 
> deal with this case as there is nothing that says what should happen in 
> this case... I think I am missing something here ?

The generic RCDATA element parsing algorithm puts the tokenizer into the 
RCDATA state, from which the only possible tokens are text tokens, end tag 
tokens, and end-of-file tokens. These are the same tokens that the "text" 
mode handles.

So you parse a <title> start tag token, you go into "text" mode, then you 
get six character tokens, which get inserted into the <title> element, 
then you get an EOF token, and you unwind the parser and end.

What token are you getting that isn't handled?

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