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Bug 17654 - Clarify phrase about element type
Summary: Clarify phrase about element type
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P4 minor
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Silvia Pfeiffer
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
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Keywords: CR, editorial
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Reported: 2012-06-29 15:40 UTC by pedro
Modified: 2013-04-26 10:51 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description pedro 2012-06-29 15:40:14 UTC 
The following phrase of section "Common infrastructure" seems confusingly written; possibly there's something missing:

"The term element type is used to refer to the class of elements have a given local name and namespace"
Comment 1 contributor 2012-07-18 07:12:09 UTC 
This bug was cloned to create bug 17885 as part of operation convergence.
Comment 2 Silvia Pfeiffer 2013-04-26 10:39:54 UTC 
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If
you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of
this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would
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Status: Accepted

Change Description:
https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/3b1ee7b24abfc94f2bdb421802d4b1db644d544d

Rationale: accepted WHATWG resolution; changed so sentence makes sense