- From: Christopher R. Maden <crm@ebt.com>
- Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 00:07:01 GMT
- To: donohoe@emerge.com
- CC: www-html@w3.org
Doug Donohoe: > Megazone wrote: > > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> > > <html> > > <title>spew</title> > > <LINK REV=MADE HREF="mailto:spider@livingston.com"> > > <META NAME="fu" CONTENT="bar"> > > <BODY> > > etc deleted > > > > That is perfectly valid! > > Not that this is pertinent to IDML as a whole, but the fact is that > according to the W3C standard, META tags may only appear inside HEAD > tags. You can validate this for yourself at: > > http://www.sandia.gov/sci_compute/elements.html#META > > Where it says that META is "allowed in content of <HEAD>" (and > nothing else). Nevertheless, the above is not rejected by browsers, > so I'll concede this point. Please take the time to learn some SGML, and to read the HTML *specifications*, not a non-normative document maintained by an HTML user. The <meta> element is allowed in a <head> *ELEMENT*, not within <head> tags. The definition of the <head> element allows its tags to be omitted. In the example Megazone gives above, the <link> and <meta> elements *are* in the <head> element, by virtue of the content model. -Chris -- <!NOTATION SGML.Geek PUBLIC "-//GCA//NOTATION SGML Geek//EN"> <!ENTITY crism PUBLIC "-//EBT//NONSGML Christopher R. Maden//EN" SYSTEM "<URL>http://www.ebt.com <TEL>+1.401.421.9550 <FAX>+1.401.521.2030 <USMAIL>One Richmond Square, Providence, RI 02906 USA" NDATA SGML.Geek>
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