- From: Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 09:13:35 -0400 ()
- To: MegaZone <megazone@livingston.com>
- cc: www-html@w3.org
On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, MegaZone wrote: > But, is there a way in a DTD to say "if nothing specified, > assume BODY"? SGML rules for omitting start tags are kind of weird. You can do this if the element is required and its content is not empty. In addition the DTD must declare the element to permit omission of the start tag. One would have though that the next token would be enough to determine which element is present, but I believe the SGML committee was concerned over inclusions and exclusions and ended up with a more conservative rule. Regards, -- Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett phone: +44 122 578 2521 (office) +44 385 320 444 (gsm mobile) World Wide Web Consortium (on assignment from HP Labs)
Received on Monday, 28 July 1997 09:22:01 UTC