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Bug 8566 - The 1st paragraph of this section doesn't match the parsing rules in the last paragraph. Also, the first para seems to refer to document type rather than element type. Change "element in the document" to "document element" maybe?
Summary: The 1st paragraph of this section doesn't match the parsing rules in the last...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: LC
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2009-12-28 22:58 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 13:55 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2009-12-28 22:58:30 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#syntax-references

Comment:
The 1st paragraph of this section doesn't match the parsing rules in the last
paragraph.  Also, the first para seems to refer to document type rather than
element type.  Change "element in the document" to "document element" maybe?

Posted from: 71.20.129.201
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-01-11 04:47:21 UTC 
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Status: Partially Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below - I fixed the confusion between "{element in the document} with type" and "element {in the document with type}" by using "element with type in the document".
Rationale: The conformance rules don't have to match the parsing rules, so long as doing the conforming thing leads to the right effect, which it will in this case (as far as I can tell). We have to have the suboptimal parsing rules here for legacy reasons.
Comment 2 contributor 2010-01-11 04:48:45 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r4566.
Check-in comment: word order for readability
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=4565&to=4566