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Bug 14468 - It is not specified whether CDATA is allowed at the very beginning of a document when there is no current node. Change to "if there is a current node and the current node is not an element in the HTML namespace..."? See test #13 in html5test-com.dat --
Summary: It is not specified whether CDATA is allowed at the very beginning of a docum...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-10-14 18:24 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-10-25 03:14 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-10-14 18:24:21 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/tokenization.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#markup-declaration-open-state
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#markup-declaration-open-state

Comment:
It is not specified whether CDATA is allowed at the very beginning of a
document when there is no current node.  Change to "if there is a current node
and the current node is not an element in the HTML namespace..."?  See test
#13 in html5test-com.dat  --djf

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-10-19 22:00:13 UTC 
Good point.
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-10-25 03:12:10 UTC 
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Status: Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: Concurred with reporter's comments.
Comment 3 contributor 2011-10-25 03:14:02 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r6748.
Check-in comment: clarity
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6747&to=6748