- From: John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 13:45:03 -0500 (EST)
- To: www-dom@w3.org
keshlam@us.ibm.com scripsit: > If someone hands a parser a badly-formed HTML file without the <HTML> > wrapper, does the DOM assume that an HTML element will be synthesized to be > the single content root (DocumentElement)? Or should an HTML DOM accurately > record the multiple-root structure of the broken file? There is no such thing as an HTML document without an HTML element. HTML, like HEAD and BODY and a few other elements, allows omission of both the start-tag and the end-tag. So a (minimal) HTML document: <TITLE>Foo</TITLE>Bar has in fact the structure <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Foo</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>Bar</BODY></HTML> -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban.
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