- From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 18:34:29 -0500 (EST)
- To: "Richard A. O'Keefe" <ok@atlas.otago.ac.nz>
- cc: <html-tidy@w3.org>
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote: > Why on _earth_ would the SGML designers make this entirely harmless feature > depend on SHORTTAG? As far as I can see, the only benefit is to make SGML > parsers slower (because they'd have to make an otherwise unnecessary check > of SHORTTAG) and to link this feature with an extremely dangerous one (<>). > > However, the fact that they _are_ linked means that people who develop > HTML pages using an SGML parser to check them for validity (like me) still > need to use HTML Tidy to check that <>, </>, <x//, <x<y> and so on are not > used, because an SGML parser won't complain about them. In the case of nsgmls, it will complain if you use -wmin-tag on the command line. The WDG HTML Validator [*] uses this when warnings are enabled. [*] http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/ -- Liam Quinn
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