- From: Jan Roland Eriksson <jrexon@newsguy.com>
- Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 21:08:09 +0200
- To: "Braden N. McDaniel" <braden@endoframe.com>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
On Tue, 4 Apr 2000 03:09:26 -0400 (EDT), "Braden N. McDaniel" <braden@endoframe.com> wrote: >On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Jan Roland Eriksson wrote: >> On Mon, 3 Apr 2000 19:53:18 -0400 (EDT), "L. David Baron" >> <dbaron@fas.harvard.edu> wrote: >> > 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. [...] >> If there's nothing to mark-up, there's no motivation for markup either. >Indeed, but it is *not* the parser's job to fix errant document structure! >It is the parser's job to read the markup that's there. And as long as >it's valid, the DOM tree should have a direct correspondence to the >plaintext representation. Fair enough. But... What about "styling" of non existing content? Leave that no-content element dangling in the DOM tree and we need to move the decision not to style it to the CSS renderer instead. If not, we will not have a way to discourage the use of successive P's for vertical spacing, and that is what I think David's question was all about. -- Jan Roland Eriksson <jrexon@newsguy.com> <URL:http://member.newsguy.com/%7Ejrexon/>
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