[whatwg] Form-associated elements and the parser

Tue Dec 3 12:56:44 PST 2013

On Dec 3, 2013, at 10:42 AM, Adam Barth <abarth at eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote:

> Did you mean to drop whatwg from the CC list?
> 
> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
>> On Thu, 21 Nov 2013, Ryosuke Niwa wrote:
>>> 
>>> A start tag whose tag name is "isindex"
>>> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/tree-construction.html#isindex
>>> 
>>> Right now, form element pointer is not null in the following example, so we end up losing isindex element entirely.
>>> <!DOCTYPE html>
>>> <html><body><form><template>a<isindex></isindex>b</template>
>> 
>> Hm. It's worse than that: <form><template><form> will drop the inner
>> <form>, because the form element pointer is set.
>> 
>> So, there's several ways we could fix this. We could simply say <template>
>> isn't valid inside <form> and ignore the whole problem.
> 
> That seems bad for authors because I can imagine folks wanting to have
> a templated form.  :)
> 
>> Or, we could have a form element pointer stack that parallels the
>> template stack.
>> 
>> I guess the latter is best for authors. How do implementors feel about
>> adding a new stack for the template stuff?

Do we really need a stack?  Can't we set the form element pointer aside when we push the first template element
and restore it when we pop the last template element?

- R. Niwa