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All these elements need act as if they are inserted into document (and removed from it). See bug 21952 for context.
Looks like that the current spec doesn't use such a phrase anymore. The corresponding part in the current spec should be: > Thus, the HTML elements must behave as specified [HTML] in the shadow trees, Let me close this issue. Please feel free to reopen if we need to define 'inserted into document'.