- From: Jan Roland Eriksson <jrexon@newsguy.com>
- Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 03:20:45 +0200
- To: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@fas.harvard.edu>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
On Mon, 3 Apr 2000 19:53:18 -0400 (EDT), "L. David Baron" <dbaron@fas.harvard.edu> wrote: >Section 9.3.1 of the HTML spec [1] says "User agents should ignore >empty P elements." I am curious what the authors of this line intended >it to mean... > 1) An empty P element should be ignored at the parsing stage, and > therefore should not appear in the DOM and should not be affected > by style sheets. This is the correct interpretation. The purpose of markup is to provide structure to content, i.e. a final marked up document shall appear as a serialized representation of a structure where we have "content embedded in markup". (nota bene, not the other way around, because that would be "tag soup" :) If there's nothing to mark-up, there's no motivation for markup either. -- Jan Roland Eriksson <jrexon@newsguy.com> <URL:http://member.newsguy.com/%7Ejrexon/>
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