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Distinguish tags from elements in the terminology #151

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@tuukka

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

https://github.com/facebook/jsx/blob/d614ce76e6ea996ea6dfa122f2a7be71ed96e6eb/spec.emu#L66-L71

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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