On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 21:09:44 +0600, Anne van Kesteren
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The simplest, and actually the one being discussed:
<em>
<p>Paragraph 1</p>
<p>Paragraph 2</p>
</em>
Why not? These two paragraphs are highlighted with emphasis. What's
wrong here, in the semantical sense?
<em> has never been defined in a way that it could give entire paragraphs
emphasis. I'm not really saying anything is wrong about it, just that
has never been defined. Also, <em> was defined to be inline-level
(nothing
to do with presentation) in HTML4 which means that it could not contain
block-level (again, apart from presentation) elements so parsers did
funny
things on error recovery.
This confirms the point that the classification of elements into
block-level and inline-level is just a convention not backed by a semantic
requirement. Well, it establishes a rule about the valid and invalid
element nesting, which does help error recovery. But as we are discussing
the very error recovery at this time, maybe we should review this rule if
it helps build a saner DOM for some pathological but widely used markup?
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