- From: Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 14:22:35 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time)
- To: "Schlesinger, Karen" <Karen_Schlesinger@es.adp.com>
- cc: "'Dave Raggett care of <html-tidy@w3.org>'" <html-tidy@w3.org>, "'scott@inventa.com'" <scott@inventa.com>
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Schlesinger, Karen wrote: > We are trying to use HTML tidy version 13th January, and are > experiencing a few difficulties when using <span > id="foo"></span>, and also <table id="foo"></table>. Tidy is > reading these tags as empty, and therefore removing them in the > cleaing process. We have tried teaching tidy about these tags as > empty and also as inline, but neither have been successful. Is > there any way to teach tidy that these tags are not empty, but > contain an attribute, even though there is nothing in between > the tags? Attached please find a copy of our config file, in > which we defined the Tidy requirements. Any insight you can > provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your feedback. I am working on tweaking the rules tidy uses to prune empty elements. However, an empty table element is an error according to the HTML specs. I would be grateful if you could explain why you need an empty table element? Regards, -- Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett tel/fax: +44 122 578 3011 (or 2521) +44 385 320 444 (mobile) World Wide Web Consortium (on assignment from HP Labs)
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