On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 13:17:17 +0000, David Carlisle <>
wrote:
> On 14/12/2010 13:00, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
>> Really? Is that deliberate? I thought one of the goals of HTML 5 was
>> to make sure parsers reported the same parse tree no matter what
>> garbage you threw at it.
>
> same parse trees as other html5 parsers yes, but radically different
> trees than an XML parser would produce from the same markup.
>
> I've no complaint with html5 having defined fixup rules to give
> consistent error recovery from overlapping markup and other horrors,
> but I think the fact that it parses well formed XML and produces
> different trees is just wrong.
That HTML5 may do strange things when presented with HTML/mathml/svg
elements
is rather par for the course!
I was thinking about how it behaves with XML with names not in
HTML/MATHML/SVG.
Cheers
Rick
