- From: Philip Taylor <pjt47@cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:46:19 +0000
- To: Shelley Powers <shelley.just@gmail.com>
- CC: HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
Shelley Powers wrote:
> [...]
> Lastly, just an FYI for this section: the closing math element tag
> isn't mandatory with HTML; the appearance of any element in the HTML
> namespace will trigger an end to the Math markup.
It is mandatory, in the sense that it is a conformance error if you
don't have the </math> tag. (It's required because
http://whatwg.org/html5#optional-tags does not say it's optional). The
math element is not closed by "any element in the HTML namespace" - it's
closed by the start tags listed in
http://whatwg.org/html5#parsing-main-inforeign ("b", "big", etc)
(assuming it's not inside foreignObject etc).
--
Philip Taylor
pjt47@cam.ac.uk
Received on Thursday, 5 November 2009 08:46:49 UTC