- From: Murray Maloney <murray@sco.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Nov 1994 10:12:36 -0500 (EST)
- To: lydjaw@microsoft.com
- Cc: www-html@www0.cern.ch
The answer is: black & white The wording of the specification is not intended to imply that SGML parsing an attribute substitution is disabled while the <SAMP> element is the current context in an HTML document. > > I'm looking for clarification on the <samp> element. The HTML 2.0 > specification describes <samp> as follows: > > "The SAMP type indicates a sequence of literal characters." > > How is this tag commonly used? How should I expect the following > markup to be displayed in a Web client? > > <samp>black & white</samp> > > Alternative A: > > black & white > > Alternative B: > > black & white > > Thanks, > Lydja Williams > Microsoft You are welcome, Murray =========================================================================== --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Murray C. Maloney Internet: murray@sco.com Technical Publications Writer/Architect Uucp: ...uunet!sco!murray SCO Canada, Inc. My Phone: (416) 960-4031 130 Bloor Street West, 10th Floor Fax: (416) 922-2704 Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1N5 SCO Phone: (416) 922-1937 =========================================================================== --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsor member of Davenport Group (ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/davenport/) Member of IETF HTML Working Group (http://www.hal.com/%7Econnolly/html-spec/) Member of SGML Open Internet and WWW Technical Committee ===========================================================================
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