Ivan Herman wrote:
Meri Kovach wrote:
<table>
<tr>
<span about="#2105555" typeof="foaf:Person">
<td>1</td>
<td><span property="foaf:firstName">Meri</span></td>
<td><span property="foaf:familyName">Kovac</span></td>
</span>
</tr>
</table>
[...]
The way the distiller works is that if hits
an XML (not XHTML!) error, it then switches (if allowed in the command
arguments) to an HTML5 parser and attempts to run the code through that
one, too. I guess (but I do not know) that the HTML5 parser attempts to
make some sense in the erroneous code and I would presume it will
simply remove the <span> element from the DOM tree it produces.
That guess is almost right - with invalid input like this, the HTML5
parser moves the <span> to just before the <table>, so it's equivalent to:
<span about="#2105555" typeof="foaf:Person"></span>
<table>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
...
</tr>
</table>
(You can test how html5lib parses HTML into a DOM tree using
<http://james.html5.org/parsetree.html>)
--
Philip Taylor
pj...@cam.ac.uk
