- From: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:26:37 +0100
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Cc: HTML Data Task Force WG <public-html-data-tf@w3.org>
On Dec 20, 2011, at 15:12 , Henri Sivonen wrote: > On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com> wrote: >> I think it's only a problem for HTML and XHTML5 as I believe that XHTML1 wouldn't be valid XHTML if it lacked the start and end tag for <head> and <body> (and there are so many problems with embedding data in invalid (X)HTML that I wouldn't think of those as spec bugs). I'd have to check though… > > The lack of any of <head>, </head>, <body> or </body> tags is invalid > in XHTML5, too. The head and body elements are required and there are > no implied tags in the XML serialization. Thanks Henri, it is good to know that (it was not obvious for me either). However... it is correct, isn't it, that <head> or <body> may be missing in HTML5 (ie, not XHTML5), right? Ivan > > -- > Henri Sivonen > hsivonen@iki.fi > http://hsivonen.iki.fi/ > ---- Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ mobile: +31-641044153 FOAF: http://www.ivan-herman.net/foaf.rdf
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