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Don Park wrote: >> In other words, should the *implict* <TBODY> in the above >> HTML fragment tag be *explicitly* represented in the DOM? > I didn't answer this question earlier because there is no clear anwer. > > The DOM spec is very vague in this area. SGML rules, however, are not. An element with "O O" omissibility *exists* whether its tags appear in the source or not. Thus every HTML-DOM must have HTML as the top-level element even if there are no HTML tags. The same rule applies to HEAD, BODY, and TBODY. (SGML weenies on XML-DEV: am I wrong?) > Yes, I would like to assume that all table rows are inside table section > elements. But then I would also like to be able to add some custom elements > or attributes into my document. > > Perhaps what we need is a way to have two views of a Document. A 'perfect > world' view of the document for predictability and a 'anything goes' view of > a document for flexibility. I don't see this as a problem. This is not about rejecting what is there, but treating what does not appear as present. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@c... You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5) xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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