- From: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 21:13:37 -0600
- To: Edward McGuire <MetaEd@MetaEd.COM>
- Cc: site-comments@w3.org
On 9 Jan 2012, at 6:27 PM, Edward McGuire wrote: > I am trying to understand the meaning and rationale of a sentence > added to the HTML 4 standard in section 3.2.1. The sentence first > appeared in the edition REC-html40-971218: > > "Please consult the SGML standard for information about rules > governing elements (e.g., they must be properly nested, an end tag > closes all omitted start tags up to the matching start tag (section > 7.5.1), etc.)." > -- http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40-971218/intro/sgmltut.html#h-3.2.1 > > I imagine there was some discussion of that addition, but I cannot > find any public mailing lists which have a record of it. Other than > public mailing lists, I really don't know where to start looking. If > someone would be so kind as to point me in the right direction ... Hi Edward, I looked for a short while and did not find discussion in a public archive. The document includes in the abstract: "HTML 4.0 is an SGML application conforming to International Standard ISO 8879 -- Standard Generalized Markup Language [ISO8879])." The mention of SGML in the tutorial was to re-emphasize that the tutorial was incomplete. Is there some particular reason you were looking at this? Ian > > Cheers, > > Edward McGuire > Fort Worth, Texas > > > > -- Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/ Tel: +1 718 260 9447
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