Re: Tidy.exe

On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Brian Smith wrote:

> Hello Dave
> 
> Please forgive my writing to you but I am a little confused about a
> behaviour in tidy.exe.
> 
> If you write a terminating tag - </span>, for example - but with
> a space between the slash and the tag word - </ span> - tidy.exe
> does not detect it and puts another terminating tag - in the
> "correct" format - where it thinks appropriate.
> 
> Is it a W3C requirement that there is no intervening space character
> between the slash and the tag word?

Yes, you can't put spaces between < and the tag name for a start
tag, neither can put spaces between </ and the tag name for end
tags.

Regards,

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