Nicholas Shanks wrote:
The only way I can see to have these in a well-formed DOM is by using
empty elements for both the start and end.
<p>…<ins-start/>…</p><p>…<ins-end/>…</p>
Right. Coming from the SGML world, that's called "paired elements"
and they're usually linked through id and idref. That's how a range
should be represented and a single selection is a range.
However, that said, I believe more strongly that the ins, del and mark
are metadata about the document, not specifically *part* of the
document, and as such, perhaps they need to be moved completely out of
flow, either into the <head> or into an auxiliary metadata file. They
are seldom used AFAICT, not being mentioned on [1], and I think there is
a valid reason for this lack of use which should be addressed. Are the
elements necessary in HTML, should the information they convey be
specified in another manner completely?
Managing that in an editor would be a true nightmare. Please, please,
please no.
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