- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 10:57:21 +0300
- To: HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
The spec uses the word "document" both in an abstract sense and in the sense of "DOM tree". I suggest explicitly saying that "document" means "DOM tree" in most cases. (For the benefit of those who look up things piecemeal in the spec, to whom it isn't clear that the spec looks everything through DOM-colored glasses and who assume general English meaning of words, substituting "document" with "document tree", "DOM", "DOM tree" throughout the spec might help, but this may not be worth the editorial time. Adding one sentence under "Terminology" would be low- hanging fruit, though.) Furthermore, HTML 5 uses "XML document" to mean a DOM tree with the HTMLness flag set to false whereas the XML spec uses "XML document" to mean an stream of bytes that satisfies a particular format. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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