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Who is asking? :) I think the element should be considered along with all the other table-based sub-elements and stripped from the tree (leaving only their child nodes). So... <table role="presentation"> <caption>Hi</caption> </table> Would just result in a single text node: "Hi" I wouldn't assume to do otherwise.