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RE:Short tags

From: Andrew Layman <andrewl@microsoft.com>
Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 18:26:25 -0700
Message-ID: <7BB61B44F197D011892800805FD4F7927DD98A@RED-03-MSG.dns.microsoft.com>
To: "'Peter@ursus.demon.co.uk'" <Peter@ursus.demon.co.uk>, w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org

Peter Murray-Rust writes:

>SD1 (short tags).  This is trivial for parser writers, but ... error
>recovery for missing endtags in WF documents would be effectively error
>creation.

The current language definition specifies that there is no tolerance for
missing end tags.  If the document is missing an end tag, it is not a
well-formed document and simply cannot be processed.

Received on Friday, 16 May 1997 21:26:26 EDT

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