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The introduction of the "matching" algorithm talks about a node, but its definition suddenly talks about "child node", without it being very clear what is meant.
This has been addressed: https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webcomponents/raw-file/434441b2d90e/spec/shadow/index.html#satisfying-matching-criteria