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In section 3.2.1 Semantics there is example showing necessity of using <hgroup> in situations where <h2> contains subheading. This example is simply misleading because in history <h2> was used for subheadings of headings expressed by <h1>. This misleading example should be removed even if the <hgroup> will remain in the spec after LC.
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the Editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the Tracker Issue; or you may create a Tracker Issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Rejected Change Description: no spec change Rationale: The example is correct. In the current HTML spec, any tag that's heading content starts a new section: """ The first element of heading content in an element of sectioning content represents the heading for that section. Subsequent headings of equal or higher rank start new (implied) sections, headings of lower rank start implied subsections that are part of the previous one. In both cases, the element represents the heading of the implied section. """ http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/sections.html#headings-and-sections Thus <h1>foo</h1><h2>bar</h2> marks up a rank-one section whose contents begin with a rank-two subsection. <hgroup><h1>foo</h1><h2>bar</h2></hgroup> marks up the start of a rank-one section with no subsection (at least, it doesn't start with one). An example of a case where <h1>foo</h1><h2>bar</h2> would be correct is something like <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Egyptian_temple&oldid=442681377>, which has <h2>Functions</h2> <h3>Religious</h3> ... <h3>Economic and administrative</h3> ... In this case, the lack of an <hgroup> indicates that the entire contents of the "Functions" section consists of two subsections, "Religious" and "Economic and administrative". The example obviously will have to be fixed if <hgroup> is removed, but for now it's correct.
mass-move component to LC1