- From: Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 14:07:35 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
- To: Brian Smith <Brian.Smith@SOPHCO.COM>
- cc: "'html-tidy@w3.org'" <html-tidy@w3.org>, gerald@w3.org
On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Brian Smith wrote: > Hello Dave > > Please forgive my writing to you but I am a little confused about a > behaviour in tidy.exe. > > If you write a terminating tag - </span>, for example - but with > a space between the slash and the tag word - </ span> - tidy.exe > does not detect it and puts another terminating tag - in the > "correct" format - where it thinks appropriate. > > Is it a W3C requirement that there is no intervening space character > between the slash and the tag word? Yes, you can't put spaces between < and the tag name for a start tag, neither can put spaces between </ and the tag name for end tags. Regards, -- Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett tel/fax: +44 122 578 3011 (or 2521) +44 771 213 7629 (mobile) World Wide Web Consortium (on assignment from Phone.com)
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