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Bug 19590 - Please consider adding a step "Remove all characters from the [pending table character tokens] list" immediately after these have been processed. I got caught in a loop because these were being re-processed indefinitely
Summary: Please consider adding a step "Remove all characters from the [pending table ...
Status: RESOLVED NEEDSINFO
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-10-18 05:01 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2013-01-30 20:31 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-10-18 05:01:04 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#parsing-main-intabletext
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#parsing-main-intabletext

Comment:
Please consider adding a step "Remove all characters from the [pending table
character tokens] list" immediately after these have been processed. I got
caught in a loop because these were being re-processed indefinitely

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-10-18 19:04:49 UTC 
Can you elaborate on how you got into an infinite loop? You shouldn't, if you follow the spec precisely, as far as I can tell.
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-01-30 20:31:47 UTC 
I asked around but nobody can work out what the infinite loop would be. Please reopen if we all missed something, ideally with an example test case.