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Trac ticket: Core-65383

Reconstruction of #6982 and #6983 from trunk.

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@sirreal I had Codex attempt to merge the two prior PRs into this, as well as rebuild it from trunk. Not yet have I verified if it did it properly.

I did notice in reviewing the older versions how valuable it will be to have in_body_any_other_end_tag() as a separate method.

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dmsnell added 2 commits June 24, 2026 09:01
Moves the IN BODY insertion mode's any other end tag processing to a private helper so other parsing algorithms can invoke it directly.
Builds on the extracted IN BODY any other end tag helper while combining active formatting element reconstruction with adoption agency improvements.

Preserves attributes for virtual reconstructed formatting elements and updates focused HTML API tests for reconstructed formatting and unclosed A elements.
@dmsnell dmsnell force-pushed the html-api/aaa-structure branch from eda06ee to 86c344f Compare June 24, 2026 09:15
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