- From: T.V Raman <raman@google.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 06:22:29 -0800
- To: hsivonen@iki.fi
- Cc: raman@google.com, fielding@gbiv.com, annevk@opera.com, public-html@w3.org
The fact that the two parsers build the same DOM is not equivalent to the Web authors request of "tell me how I write my documents correctly". Henri Sivonen writes: > On Nov 30, 2007, at 03:50, T.V Raman wrote: > > > What's more, two implementors who did that would almost certainly > > come up with different answers. > > html5lib and the Validator.nu HTML parser are independent non-browser > implementations. As far as I can tell, both agree on what the document > tree should look like even when the document tree is not a DOM. > > As an implementor of a parser that can run without a DOM, I'm not > complaining about the spec being written in terms of the DOM. > > > I think this thread is closely related to the question Henry > > Thompson asked at the Tech Plenary which was: > > "HTML5 says how all the incorrect cases are handled, but fails to > > tell authors at the end of the day what the correct way of doing > > things is" > > > I answered that question at the Tech Plenary. There is a "Writing" > section that describes what kinds of character sequences one may write > without hitting the error conditions in the parsing algorithm. > > -- > Henri Sivonen > hsivonen@iki.fi > http://hsivonen.iki.fi/ > -- Best Regards, --raman Title: Research Scientist Email: raman@google.com WWW: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/ Google: tv+raman GTalk: raman@google.com, tv.raman.tv@gmail.com PGP: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/raman-almaden.asc
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