- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 07:29:10 +0000 (GMT)
- To: www-html@w3.org
> Oh? What spec describes it? Can you point me to the specific text that > maps HTML markup to a DOM? :-) A combination of the DTD and the SGML specification, surely. There are some issues about ubiquitous non-compliance with the more subtle features of SGML, but those only really hit people who are determined to serve XHTML to HTML browsers, and are actually necessary to be able to get away with that. The only ambiguities I'm aware of are in relation to the end of the HEAD element, and I presume that they are resolved by a longest match heuristic (as a user, rather than implementor, I can't justify purchasing the actual SGML specification). If you are talking about attributes, any issues with poor specification also apply to XHTML. (My perception here is that Ann was expressing the false argument for XHTML that making all tags non-optional produces a better defined parse tree; which basically fails to realise that the tags are implied, even though not physically present.)
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