This appears to contradict your next point:
> My point was that if you throw out the closing ], any of the characters
> "),{" might end the selector, instead of only "]".
So you do want a single required delimiter...
Yes, they might - but unambiguously. However, if you want spurious extra
tokens to improve the visual appearance, that is your decision.
In a somewhat tangential point, se seemed to get onto:
> >LI *is a container. What is your point here?
>
> *Forced* is the key word here. Forced as in people actually use it as
> such, instead of doing
>
> <UL>
> <LI>foo
> <LI>bar
> </UL>
It is a container regardless of whether you miss off the trailing </li>. You
say you read specs so I will assume you know the difference between the tags
in a document and the logical representation in the parse tree. </li> is
still present in the parse tree; it is inferred by the following <li>.
But perhaps this point could be taken to private email igf you want to
pursue it.
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