Re: end tags...

>|Arnoud "Galactus" Engelfriet <galactus@htmlhelp.com> writes:
>| > As such, is it incorrect that MSIE fails on the following?
>| >
>| > <HEAD>
>| >     <STYLE> blah blah style here
>| > </HEAD>
>|
>| STYLE has a required closing tag, and it's not unreasonable that
>| MS IE is just skipping the rest of the document as being invalid
>| CSS1 instead of HTML markup.

[...]
Carl Morris <msftrncs@htcnet.com> writes:
>I notice nothing different between the DTD definitions of <P> and <H1>
>to warrant the difference in handling their end tags...

from the HTML 2.0 DTD:

    <!ENTITY % heading "H1|H2|H3|H4|H5|H6">
[...]
    <!ELEMENT ( %heading )  - -  (%text;)*>

Big difference. The "- -" in H1-H6 means both start and end tags are required.

    <!ELEMENT P     - O (%text)*>

The "- O" in P means the end tag is optional. Arnoud is corrent: the STYLE
element requires an end tag, so the given example is invalid.

Murray

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Received on Sunday, 22 September 1996 16:17:22 UTC