Re: 2 HTML documents in one

phil potter wrote:

>Yes, I've tried it in WDG's validator and  the double HTML tag was 
>picked-up, which was pleasing. I've also reviewed the HTML specification 
>that gives a typical use of the HTML tag, which is one opening tag and 
>one closing tag - super, that all makes sense, and I agree with you that 
>it can't be acceptable for the reasons that you outline.

Not just that, but *ANY* HTML or XML document can only have one root 
element. The only things allowed outside that element are the XML 
declaration and the DTD tag.

I'm not sure who was claiming the "if it works" school, but without 
proper standards in place defined and used, no user-agent or parser can 
be expected to work properly. Also, markup-compatible technologies such 
as CSS and the DOM could behave unexpectedly.

James