Re: </html> followed by spaces (detailed review of Writing HTML documents)

Simon Pieters wrote:

> However, since spaces after the </html> tag will be inserted into the 
> html element by the parser anyway, the </html> tag might well be allowed 
> to be omitted when it is followed by space characters (but not when 
> those in turn are followed by a comment).

Que ?  How can something that is omitted be followed by anything ?!
Philip TAYLOR