- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 02:56:41 +0200
- To: Fred.Bone@dial.pipex.com
- Cc: html-tidy@w3.org
* Fred Bone wrote:
>On 17 Sep 2001 at 12:40, Reitzel, Charlie wrote:
I didn't receive that mail...
>> I think the distinction between an element and a tag is an SGML-ism that is
>> new to me.
Tags delimit elements. The term "tag" is commonly abused and totally
misused, think of things like "img tag" or "alt tag" (=> img element,
alt attribute). There are only three tags using XML terminology,
start-tags, end-tags and emtpy-element tags.
>> Thanks for pointing it out. I continue to learn much while
>> working on Tidy. In the TBODY declaration, does the pair of O's mean that
>> both the begin and end tags are optional?
>
>Yes! The TBODY element is required (i.e. every TABLE must have a TBODY
>as its sole mandatory component), but you don't need to mark its
>beginning or end with a tag.
The same goes for the html, head and body element. The minimal HTML 4
document would be something like
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">
<title>...</title>
<p>...
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