- From: William Perry <wmperry@aventail.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 09:19:21 -0700
- To: "Carl Morris" <msftrncs@htcnet.com>
- Cc: <www-html@w3.org>, <www-style@w3.org>
Carl Morris writes:
>| ><pre>
>| >PROCEDURE frob
>| >BEGIN
>| > IF silly <> foolish THEN
>| > WRITELN("Ooops.");
>| >END
>| ></pre>
>| >
>| >is not legal because of the "<>".
>|
>| That's perfectly legal from what I understand. CDATA entries are
>only
>| terminated by </[a-z]
>
>better you all check 3.2:
>
>-----
>The PRE element can be used to include preformatted text. User agents
>render this in a fixed pitch font, preserving spacing associated with
>white space characters such as space and newline characters. Automatic
>word-wrap should be disabled within PRE elements.
>
>Note that the SGML standard requires that the parser remove a newline
>immediately following the start tag or immediately preceding the end
>tag.
>
>PRE has the same content model as paragraphs, excluding images and
>elements that produce changes in font size, e.g. IMG, BIG, SMALL, SUB,
>SUP and FONT.
>---
>
>It seems to be that PRE is just a special case of the other block
>elements... nowhere was CDATA mentioned... I instead like the fact of
>"SGML requires that the parser remove a newline immediately following the
>start tag ..." because I don't know of a browser that does! Maybe I
>should double check the 3.0 versions of netscape and msie again?
You are correct - in 3.2 the content model of PRE has changed. Thank
god. :)
-Bill P.
Received on Monday, 23 September 1996 12:21:22 UTC