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Bug 7598 - s/character data/character data, attribute values and comments/
Summary: s/character data/character data, attribute values and comments/
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: LC
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2009-09-13 10:16 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 13:58 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2009-09-13 10:16:11 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#coercing-an-html-dom-into-an-infoset

Comment:
s/character data/character data, attribute values and comments/

Posted from: 83.252.193.59
Comment 1 Michael[tm] Smith 2009-09-17 05:13:36 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)
> Section:
> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#coercing-an-html-dom-into-an-infoset
> 
> Comment:
> s/character data/character data, attribute values and comments/

Actually, the spec doesn't define what "character data" is, so the the term should either be defined or replaced with the term "text".
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2009-09-28 20:55:52 UTC 
"character data" is an XML term (this section is talking about XML APIs).
Comment 3 Simon Pieters 2009-09-29 09:35:29 UTC 
Yes, but character data does not include attribute values or comments, since attribute values and comments are part of the markup and character data is defined to be everything that is not markup.

Attribute values and comments should however get the same coercion treatment as character data in order to achieve well-formedness.
Comment 4 contributor 2009-09-29 09:40:45 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r4044.
Check-in comment: character data doesn't include stuff in markup, oops
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=4043&to=4044