- From: John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 17:10:36 -0500 (EST)
- To: mcc@arbortext.com (Mike Champion)
- Cc: www-dom@w3.org
Mike Champion scripsit: > > <TITLE>Foo</TITLE>Bar > > > Paste the above into a file and bring it up in Netscape. No complaints. Naturally not. > This is certainly not valid HTML 4.0 (or any other version of the standard > I can imagine), Well, you're right, but not for the reason being discussed. The following small variant: <TITLE>Foo</TITLE><P>Bar *is* valid HTML 4.0 (assuming you add an appropriate DOCTYPE declaration). It is equivalent to: <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Foo</TITLE></HEAD><BODY><P>Bar</P></BODY></HTML> You can confirm this with the W3C HTML Validator Service. I have put up http://www.ccil.org/~cowan/foo.html as a sample; the Validator Service is at http://validator.w3.org . Character data is not permitted directly within a BODY element, which is what was wrong with my previous example. But my points about HTML, HEAD, and BODY all being present in all HTML documents, even if both start-tags and end-tags are omitted, is correct. See the HTML 4.0 DTD. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban.
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