Re: <A> content model in Cougar

In article <199607262123.RAA25443@ebt-inc.ebt.com>,
Arne Knudson <ack@ebt.com> wrote:
>      I've noticed that the Cougar DTD declares %A.content (the entity
> describing the allowed content for the A element) as %text. The HTML 2.0
> DTD, though, has the following declaration:

Funny, I never noticed that until you pointed this out. And yet, all
the times where I wrapped <A NAME> around headers, I got complaints
from validators. Hm.

> instances of HTML 2.0, but fails under HTML 3.2. Was it a conscious decision
> to remove %heading from %A.content, or would it be wiser to make HTML 3.2
> backwards compatable by using the same defininition (with %HTML.Recommended
> and a default %A.content) as in the HTML 2.0 DTD?

I think that since A is regarded as text-level markup, the heading would
terminate the current block element, and the anchor inside it as well.
IOW, A *can't* contain headers.

Galactus

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Received on Saturday, 27 July 1996 16:14:21 UTC