- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:05:56 +0100
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: public-html@w3.org
Ian Hickson wrote: > ... > Right, but we disagree on this, as noted earlier in this thread. I have to > balance all the various needs here. Some of these needs are better > satisfied by introducing lots of new void elements frequently; other needs Which particular need requires introducing void elements? > ... >> Could you please explain (or point to an explanation) why exactly it >> needs to be known beforehand whether something is block-level or not? >> It's certainly not needed for serializing a DOM, so I assume the parser >> needs to know for some reason? > > Block-level elements have to be known by the parser so that optional </p> > end tags can be implied. > ... Just make the </p> end tags required in this case. Problem solved. Best regards, Julian
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