Re: <q> and commas

Sam Kuper wrote:

> I'm *not* in favour of such heuristics, and I'll explain why.
> 
> (A) In cases where the author has used constructions like <q>"(A 
> quote.)"</q>, the markup is invalid under HTML 4.x, 

Why do you assert that, Sam ?
Here is a sample document, which can be passed
through the W3C Validator without error :

 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
 <Html>
 <Head><Title></Title></Head>
 <Body><q>"(A > quote.)"</q></Body>
 </Html>

Philip TAYLOR

Received on Thursday, 30 October 2008 11:14:07 UTC