Ian Hickson wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It would mean that leaving the attribute out violates a conformance
requirement, making the document non-conformant.
...the advantage of which being...?
I don't understand the point in making this code:
// this element will be used later
var meta = document.createElement('meta');
...non-conformant.
Elements cannot be validated until they are inserted in the document,
because the type depends on the position in the document. I'd say it is
non-conformant to add a meta element without attributes to a document.
I don't see why you can't validate an orphan fragment. Clearly the spec
needs to be clarified a bit, but it doesn't seem impossible.
You could with a handwritten html 5 validator, but not with a generic
validation tool, because elements with the same name can have different
types in different locations in the document.
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Sjoerd Visscher
http://w3future.com/weblog/
