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Good... now let's make a formal specification for this: <ahahah>mmm... <ohoho>nope.</ahaha></ohoho> Fully joking :-P

• ZeroGravitas 3y ago
  I believe whatwg did in fact specify for this kind of overlapping tag. edit: apparently it has the cute name of "the adoption agency algorithm": https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/parsing.html#adoption-agency-algorithm https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/parsing.html#adoption... > Note: This algorithm's name, the "adoption agency algorithm", comes from the way it causes elements to change parents, and is in contrast with other possible algorithms for dealing with misnested content.
  • ainar-g 3y ago
    At least the people who named it understood the silliness of the issue, heh.
    • lifthrasiir 3y ago
      It is not as silly as it sounds. Many programming language implementations allow a partial parser that looks similar to this in order to give better diagnostics even when the AST is incomplete. (I did the same in the past, for example.)