Re: Not detected error

On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Marnix wrote:

> Recently, I had an error on a webpage :
>
> <A HREF="01.html"<B>Klik hier om te beginnen !</B></A>
>
> After "01.html" should have been a closing ' > ' ...

SGML shorttags permits this (next opening tag indicates a close); HTML
adopts this. So the validator won't complain about it.

I don't know whether adopting SGML shorttags was a good design
decision for HTML.

L.

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