Bug report for OPTION tag

Greetings, everybody!

I've discovered what I believe to be a bug in Tidy ver 27 Sep 1999.

Here is a sample HTML file:

<HTML>
<HEAD><TITLE>Form</TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY>
<FORM ACTION="http://path/to/cgi/script" METHOD="post">
<P>Boolean: <SELECT NAME="boolean">
<OPTION> AND </OPTION>
<OPTION> OR </OPTION>
</SELECT>
</FORM>
</BODY>
</HTML>

Tidy generates the following output on my Indigo2 IRIX workstation:

Tidy (vers 27th September 1999) Parsing "bug.html"
line 10 column 23 - Warning: discarding unexpected plain text
line 10 column 28 - Warning: discarding unexpected </option>
line 12 column 23 - Warning: discarding unexpected plain text
line 12 column 27 - Warning: discarding unexpected </option>

"bug.html" appears to be HTML 2.0
4 warnings/errors were found!

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<HTML>
  <HEAD>
    <TITLE>Form</TITLE>
  </HEAD>

  <BODY>
    <FORM ACTION="http://path/to/cgi/script" METHOD="post">
      <P>Boolean: <SELECT NAME="boolean">
        <OPTION>
        </OPTION>

        <OPTION>
        </OPTION>
      </SELECT></P>
    </FORM>
  </BODY>
</HTML>

Why does it destroy the option text?  The 26 July release did not have this
problem:

Tidy (vers 26th July 1999) Parsing "bug.html"

"bug.html" appears to be HTML 2.0
no warnings or errors were found

[snip]      
      <P>Boolean: <SELECT NAME="boolean">
        <OPTION>
           AND
        </OPTION>

        <OPTION>
           OR
        </OPTION>
      </SELECT></P>
[snip]

Incidentally, anybody know why Tidy validates my sample bug.html as HTML
2.0, when all the elements are 4.0 compliant?

Thanks,

Chuck

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Received on Wednesday, 6 October 1999 14:37:58 UTC