Philip Taylor wrote:
> As http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Parser_tests says, doctype tokens are
> represented as ["DOCTYPE", name, public_id, system_id, correctness],
> and "correctness is either true or false; true corresponds to the
> force-quirks flag being false, and vice-versa", i.e. it's the exact
> opposite of force-quirks. That's certainly quite counter-intuitive,
> but it's that way for historical reasons :-). (The spec originally had
> a correctness flag rather than a force-quirks flag, and nobody has
> considered it worthwhile to update the test format when the spec
> negated the flag's meaning.)

Right. And what I'm saying is that in some cases the "correctness" tag
is true when it should be false, i.e. someone forgot it was a
correctness tag rather than a force quirks tag. If I flip the boolean
before performing tests, I still get a number of fails... just on all
the other tests.

Cheers,
Edward

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