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http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/sections.html#the-h1,-h2,-h3,-h4,-h5,-and-h6-elements the W3C HTML5 CR presents two approaches, one using heading elements by nesting depth and one using <h1> inside <section>, and adds: "Authors might prefer the former style for its terseness, or the latter style for its convenience in the face of heavy editing; which is best is purely an issue of preferred authoring style." I cannot see this as encourageing, even mildly, the use of the former approach (which is surely much more practical).
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: Accepted Change Description: modified heading levels used in example to reflect outline depth. Rationale: The spec encourages authors to use heading levels that reflect their outline depth, this change in the example supports the advice.