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Re: Possible bug in parsing of end tags

From: Vincent QUINT <Vincent.Quint@imag.fr>
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 12:54:14 +0200
Message-Id: <199706041054.MAA20813@lifou.inrialpes.fr>
To: charles@comm.polymtl.ca (Charles Levert)
cc: www-amaya@w3.org
Charles Levert wrote:

> It does not seem to be able to recognize an end tag if it contains white
> space before the >, e.g., </STRONG >.  Should it?  (In other words, is it
> legal HTML?)

Yes it should. This is legal SGML.
This bug will be fixed in the next release.

Thanks for the bug report.

Vincent.

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