- From: Gannon J. Dick <gdick@verizon.net>
- Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 13:06:43 -0600
- To: <www-html@w3.org>
It seem to me the best reason for changing from HTML to XHTML is that the fewer exceptions allowed, the fewer (perhaps proprietary and unquestionably non-standard) "improvements" will be made. Gannon J. Dick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Claus Färber" <list-w3c-html@faerber.muc.de> To: <www-html@w3.org> Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 5:23 AM Subject: Re: Promotion of XHTML > > David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk> schrieb/wrote: > > Literal answer: it is not legal to have unclosed tags in HTML, only > > unclosed elements. > > Although most tag soup parsers don't support this, it *is* legal not to > close tags in HTML under certain circumstances, e.g. when another tag > starts: <html<head<title/This is the title/</head<body>...</body</html> > > Claus > -- > ------------------------ http://www.faerber.muc.de/ ------------------------ > OpenPGP: DSS 1024/639680F0 E7A8 AADB 6C8A 2450 67EA AF68 48A5 0E63 6396 80F0 >
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