Re: Bug in Meta handling

At 07:59 AM 12/25/2000 , Jukka Korpela wrote:
>As http://www.hut.fi/~jkorpela/html/empty.html explains in some detail,
><meta /> is in fact equivalent to <meta >> according to HTML rules, i.e.
>there is the tag <meta > followed by the plain character >. Since no
>plain text outside elements is allowed inside the head element, this
>implies a syntax error. In the body part, the syntax allows plain text
>after a tag, depending on the context and on the DTD.

Ah, excellent!  I had forgotten that HTML's syntax quirks allow
for tags to close early.  Thanks, Jukka, this clears it up for
me.

--Kynn

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Received on Tuesday, 26 December 2000 13:44:44 UTC