On Sun, 21 Jul 2013, Nolan Waite wrote: > > Hello! I am confused about parsing an HTML fragment when the context is > a "select" element. > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-end.html#parsing-html-fragments > > step 4.6 instructs me to "reset the parser's insertion mode > appropriately". I head over to > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-end.html#parsing-html-fragments > > but I see a problem in step 4. > > In step 4.1 I let ancestor = node. At this point, I have: > > - stack of open elements = > - <html> > - last = true > - node = the context element, a "select" element > - ancestor = the context element, a "select" element > > In step 4.2 ancestor is not the first node in the stack of open elements > (the context "select" element is not and has never been on the stack), > so I continue to step 4.3. > > Now I am to "let ancestor be the node before ancestor in the stack of > open elements". There is no such node! At this point, ancestor is not on > the stack of open elements, so there is no node "before" it. > > I assume the intention is to effectively jump to the step labeled *done* > if ancestor is the context element? That makes sense to me.
Oops. Fixed. Your other bug (about whether <math> and <svg> are supposed to get foster parented) is also valid, but harder to fix, so I added it to the queue but haven't fixed it yet. (The short answer is yes, they're supposed to be foster parented.) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
