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Editorial: Clarify ::cue(*) and ::cue(:root) and WebVTT Leaf Node Objects #534

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<p><a>WebVTT Internal Node Objects</a> (except the root <a>list of WebVTT Node Objects</a>)
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should the except the root parenthetical be removed from the class selector example below (line 5099) as well?

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I dont think you can assign a class to plain text in the cue; you have to encompass the text in a <c> to give it a class. So keeping the parenthesis still makes sense.

with the given name.</p>
<p><a>WebVTT Internal Node Objects</a> with the given name.</p>

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<p><a>Universal selector</a> in ''::cue()''</p>

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video::cue(*:not(:root)) {
color: yellow;
}
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<p>All <a>WebVTT Internal Node Objects</a></p>

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White!
&lt;c>Yellow!&lt;/c>
&lt;i>Yellow!&lt;/i>
&lt;u>Yellow!&lt;/u>
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<p><a>Class selector</a> in ''::cue()''</p>
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Object">WebVTT Internal Node Objects</a> are considered as being in the namespace expressed as the
empty string.</p></li>

<li><p class=note>The <a>universal selector</a> matches all <a>WebVTT Internal Node Objects</a>, including the
root <a>list of WebVTT Node Objects</a>.</p></li>

<li><p class=note>''::cue(:root)'' is equivalent to ''::cue''.</p></li>

<li><p>For the purposes of attribute selector matching, <a lt="WebVTT Internal Node Object">WebVTT
Internal Node Objects</a> have no attributes, except for <a lt="WebVTT Voice Object">WebVTT Voice
Objects</a>, which have a single attribute named "<code>voice</code>" whose value is the value of
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