- From: ewitness - Ben Fowler <bfowler@ewitness.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 13:10:19 +0000
- To: html-tidy@w3.org
At 11:25 am +0000 7/2/02, Dave Raggett wrote: >On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote: > >> bfowler@ewitness.co.uk (ewitness - Ben Fowler) wrote: >> I had simply assumed that under SGML rules, tags were closed >> when a new STAGO was seen, exempli gratia: >> >> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" >> "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> >> <html >> <head >> ... >> >> Quite some time ago, I posted patches to make this work. > >I seem to remember that is is disallowed by the HTML spec, but >in any case won't work with existing web browsers. I hope that I am not reading this backwards. If Tidy does not already do so is there a reason why it should not normalise sgml-valid unclosed tags? Surely one of the raison d'etres of Tidy is to fix syntactically valid but not browser ready mark-up? Ben
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