Re: Empty paragraphs from Lee Passey on 2001-09-04 (html-tidy@w3.org from July to September 2001)

From: Lee Passey <lee@novonyx.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 11:30:55 -0600
To: html-tidy@w3.org
Message-ID: <3B950FCF.901AC8EF@novonyx.com>

Fred Bone wrote:
> 
> On 4 Sep 2001 at 9:13, Lee Passey wrote:
> 
> > I made a slight mistake here; the 8-2000 version of tidy _does_ delete
> > text nodes which have been trimmed into oblivion _if_ they are not
> > attached to a td or th node.  (I presume there are good reasons for
> > maintaining zero length text nodes for those tags, although for the life
> > of me I can't figure out what it would be).
> 
> How else would you specify an empty table cell?

I'm going to embarrass myself by displaying my ignorance. Can't an empty
table cell be specified by an empty pair of tags, with no enclosed text?
(e.g. <td></td> as opposed to <td>  </td>)

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