Comments welcome on this proposal for a revision to the spec for raw HTML blocks:
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The proposal PR diff as of now:
diff --git a/spec.txt b/spec.txt
index 92faa73..0ef214c 100644
--- a/spec.txt
+++ b/spec.txt
@@ -2012,22 +2012,22 @@ followed by an uppercase ASCII letter.\
6. **Start condition:** line begins the string `<` or `</`
followed by one of the strings (case-insensitive) `address`,
-`article`, `aside`, `base`, `basefont`, `blockquote`, `body`,
-`caption`, `center`, `col`, `colgroup`, `dd`, `details`, `dialog`,
+`article`, `aside`, `blockquote`, `body`,
+`caption`, `center`, `colgroup`, `dd`, `details`, `dialog`,
`dir`, `div`, `dl`, `dt`, `fieldset`, `figcaption`, `figure`,
-`footer`, `form`, `frame`, `frameset`,
-`h1`, `h2`, `h3`, `h4`, `h5`, `h6`, `head`, `header`, `hr`,
-`html`, `iframe`, `legend`, `li`, `link`, `main`, `menu`, `menuitem`,
-`meta`, `nav`, `noframes`, `ol`, `optgroup`, `option`, `p`, `param`,
-`section`, `source`, `summary`, `table`, `tbody`, `td`,
-`tfoot`, `th`, `thead`, `title`, `tr`, `track`, `ul`, followed
+`footer`, `form`, `frameset`,
+`h1`, `h2`, `h3`, `h4`, `h5`, `h6`, `head`, `header`,
+`html`, `iframe`, `legend`, `li`, `main`, `menu`,
+`nav`, `noframes`, `ol`, `optgroup`, `option`, `p`,
+`section`, `summary`, `table`, `tbody`, `td`,
+`tfoot`, `th`, `thead`, `title`, `tr`, `ul`, followed
by [whitespace], the end of the line, the string `>`, or
the string `/>`.\
**End condition:** line is followed by a [blank line].
7. **Start condition:** line begins with a complete [open tag]
-or [closing tag] (with any [tag name] other than `script`,
-`style`, or `pre`) followed only by [whitespace]
+or [closing tag] (with any [tag name] other than `pre`, a [raw text element]
+name, or a [void element] name followed only by [whitespace]
or the end of the line.\
**End condition:** line is followed by a [blank line].
@@ -8610,6 +8610,21 @@ An [HTML tag](@) consists of an [open tag], a [closing tag],
an [HTML comment], a [processing instruction], a [declaration],
or a [CDATA section].
+A [raw text element](@) is one of the following elements
+as [defined](http://w3c.github.io/html/syntax.html#raw-text-elements)
+by the HTML spec:
+`script`, `style`.
+
+A [void element](@) is one of the following elements
+as [defined](http://w3c.github.io/html/syntax.html#void-elements)
+by the HTML spec:
+`area`, `base`, `br`, `col`, `embed`, `hr`, `img`, `input`, `link`, `menuitem`,
+`meta`, `param`, `source`, `track`, `wbr`.
+
+Additionally, the following legacy HTML elements are considered void:
+`basefont`, `bgsound`, `command`, `frame`, `image`, `isindex`, `keygen`,
+`nextid`.
+
Here are some simple open tags:
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