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Distinguish tags from elements in the terminology #151

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tuukka opened this issue Sep 28, 2022 · 0 comments

tuukka commented Sep 28, 2022

Has it been a deliberate choice to treat the terms tag and element as synonyms in the spec and the grammar?

Lines 66 to 71 in d614ce7

    
           JSXElement : 
        
             JSXSelfClosingElement 
        
             JSXOpeningElement JSXChildren? JSXClosingElement 
        
           JSXSelfClosingElement : 
        
               `<` JSXElementName JSXAttributes? `/` `>`

I find this lack of distinction confusing when teaching JSX.

I think the following would be more clear and in line with the terminology used for HTML (e.g. Document.getElementsByTagName vs Document.getElementsByName):

      JSXElement :
        JSXSelfClosingTag
        JSXOpeningTag JSXChildren? JSXClosingTag

      JSXSelfClosingTag :
          `<` JSXTagName JSXAttributes? `/` `>`

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