- From: Peter Flynn <pflynn@curia.ucc.ie>
- Date: 30 Oct 1996 22:31:15 +0000 (GMT)
- To: preece@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com
- Cc: davidp@earthlink.net, www-html@w3.org
Again, when he says "there is no way to leave the <TT> open" he means exactly that. SGML does not allow for non-hierarchical markup. It is *impossible* to have an element start inside another element and end outside it. SGML simply does not allow you to represent that concept as elements (you *could* represent it using a DTD that included elements that signalled the beginning and end of regions, but the HTML DTD doesn't do that - it wraps regions as elements). Yes, this does make it But didn't HTML3 do just that: <EM>you use <SPOT ID="foo">here and some time later</EM> you can say <SPOT ID="bar">at some arbitrary point. Then in the header you say <RANGE FROM="foo" UNTIL="bar" CLASS="pink-and-blue"> and leave it to the style engine to sort out :-) Because SPOT is defined EMPTY, it has no domain, so spots can occur arbitrarily anywhere. It's in HTML Pro anyway. ///Peter
Received on Wednesday, 30 October 1996 17:29:07 UTC