7598 2009-09-13 10:16:11 +0000 s/character data/character data, attribute values and comments/ 2010-10-04 13:58:35 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified All All CLOSED FIXED http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#coercing-an-html-dom-into-an-infoset P3 normal LC 1 contributor ian mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking zcorpan public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 27116 0 contributor 2009-09-13 10:16:11 +0000 Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#coercing-an-html-dom-into-an-infoset Comment: s/character data/character data, attribute values and comments/ Posted from: 83.252.193.59 27249 1 mike 2009-09-17 05:13:36 +0000 (In reply to comment #0) > Section: > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#coercing-an-html-dom-into-an-infoset > > Comment: > s/character data/character data, attribute values and comments/ Actually, the spec doesn't define what "character data" is, so the the term should either be defined or replaced with the term "text". 27738 2 ian 2009-09-28 20:55:52 +0000 "character data" is an XML term (this section is talking about XML APIs). 27813 3 zcorpan 2009-09-29 09:35:29 +0000 Yes, but character data does not include attribute values or comments, since attribute values and comments are part of the markup and character data is defined to be everything that is not markup. Attribute values and comments should however get the same coercion treatment as character data in order to achieve well-formedness. 27815 4 contributor 2009-09-29 09:40:45 +0000 Checked in as WHATWG revision r4044. Check-in comment: character data doesn't include stuff in markup, oops http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=4043&to=4044