- From: David Håsäther <hasather@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 19:23:22 +0100
- To: "www-validator@w3.org" <www-validator@w3.org>
On 2005-11-30 18:33, Philip TAYLOR wrote: >>> If the language were extended to allow attributes in >>> closing tags [...] >> >> They would be completely redundant, so what would that add? > > The very thing that the original poster requested : the ability > to tag closing tags (sorry, unintentional overload of "tag" here) > such that visual inspection would clearly indicate which closing > tag was meant to match which opening tag. That could already easily be achieved with a comment declaration for example. > I see no redundancy at all ... Apart from giving a visual indication -- which can be achieved in other ways -- it _would_ be redundant. > ... but rather (as the original poster suggested) an elegant > enhancement of the language which would benefit those who author > HTML by hand as well as potentially improving the diagnostic > capabilities of the validator (which is why I've cc'd WWW-Validator). Yea, my intention was to post it to the list, but somehow I mailed just you instead. -- David Håsäther
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