Netscape and SGML

• From: Michael Seaton <mseaton@pobox.com>
• Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 11:47:27 -0400 ()
• To: www-html@w3.org
• Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.3.95.960802112835.-488887B-100000@mseaton.nbnet.nb.ca>

I discovered the following statement in Netscape's documentation for
Naviagtor 3.0:

http://home.netscape.com/comprod/products/navigator/version_3.0/multicolumns.html
> Font styles - The MULTICOL tag recognizes current font status. So if you
> begin a bold section before the multicolumn, the text in the columns 
> will start bold, and if you close the bold in the middle of the 
> multicolumn, this nonbold status will continue once you leave the
> multicolumn.

i.e.

<B> bold text <MULTICOL> bold text </B> plain text </MULTICOL> plain text

It was my understanding that SGML elements were not permitted to overlap; 
is it even possible for a DTD to specify this behaviour? 

--
Michael Seaton (mseaton@pobox.com)

Received on Friday, 2 August 1996 10:50:42 UTC