TBodies ...

[John Cowan]

Don Park wrote:

>> In other words, should the *implict* <TBODY> in the above
>> HTML fragment tag be *explicitly* represented in the DOM?
> I didn't answer this question earlier because there is no clear anwer.
> 
> The DOM spec is very vague in this area.

SGML rules, however, are not.  An element with "O O" omissibility
*exists* whether its tags appear in the source or not.  Thus
every HTML-DOM must have HTML as the top-level element even if
there are no HTML tags.  The same rule applies to HEAD, BODY, and
TBODY.  (SGML weenies on XML-DEV: am I wrong?)

> Yes, I would like to assume that all table rows are inside table section
> elements.  But then I would also like to be able to add some custom elements
> or attributes into my document.
> 
> Perhaps what we need is a way to have two views of a Document.  A 'perfect
> world' view of the document for predictability and a 'anything goes' view of
> a document for flexibility.

I don't see this as a problem.  This is not about rejecting what is
there, but treating what does not appear as present.

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