21572 2013-04-03 15:38:04 +0000 The term ‘RCDATA elements’ is obscure; there's no clue in the spec as to why it's called that. 2013-06-11 18:24:59 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified Other other RESOLVED FIXED http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#elements-0 P3 normal Unsorted 1 contributor ian ian mike Smylers zcorpan contributor oldest_to_newest 85503 0 contributor 2013-04-03 15:38:04 +0000 Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/syntax.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#elements-0 Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#elements-0 Comment: The term ‘RCDATA elements’ is obscure; there's no clue in the spec as to why it's called that. Posted from: 81.143.60.194 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0 85507 1 Smylers 2013-04-03 15:42:51 +0000 Anne suggested it could be renamed to something more useful: http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20130403#l-689 I'm not sure there's a good term, but it could be less offputtingly jargonny, since there doesn't seem any reason for it to be called RCDATA any more. (The context was me, as an author, trying to find out why comments aren't allowed inside <title>.) 85538 2 ian 2013-04-04 03:34:29 +0000 I'm definitely open to changing the term. RCDATA is purely legacy from SGML terminology. It needs to be something short and unambiguous, though, because it gets used all over the HTML parser spec too. So for example, these are no good: text elements text-only elements -- these sound too much like "raw text elements, which we're already using" no-child elements child-free elements -- these sound too much like they can't have text node children either element-free elements -- just too confusing 85720 3 zcorpan 2013-04-08 14:47:38 +0000 normal text elements - In contrast to raw text elements, entities work like normal. cooked text elements - Antonym to raw. 85995 4 ian 2013-04-11 22:34:23 +0000 "normal <word implying not-normal> foo" is a rather odd construction that would still cause confusion (is it a normal element? what's the text part mean?) "cooked" usually means something has been done to the raw string to get it into an intermediate state. I don't think that applies here. 88531 5 ian 2013-05-31 20:54:59 +0000 GPHemsley suggested "escapable raw text", which is the least bad so far. :-) 88538 6 zcorpan 2013-06-01 09:34:18 +0000 WFM 89107 7 ian 2013-06-11 18:24:20 +0000 Done and done. 89109 8 contributor 2013-06-11 18:24:59 +0000 Checked in as WHATWG revision r7953. Check-in comment: Move away from the term 'RCDATA' in the syntax section. (I haven't changed the parser section, so that people who have implemented it don't get really confused.) http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=7952&to=7953