- From: John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>
- Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 12:25:23 -0400
- To: DOM List <www-dom@w3.org>
Miles Sabin wrote: > In other words, should the *implict* <TBODY> in the above > HTML fragment tag be *explicitly* represented in the DOM? Yes. Because TBODY has "O O" omissibility (that is, both the start-tag and the end-tag can be omitted), its presence is inferred from the presence of a TR element. The same is true within HTML of the HTML, HEAD, and BODY elements, and all of them must appear explicitly in the DOM. The minimal fully-explicit HTML document is: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "whatever"> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE></TITLE></HEAD><BODY></BODY></HTML> The TITLE element is not "O O", but it is a mandatory element, indeed the only mandatory element that is not "O O". -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)
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