- From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 10:35:48 -0500 (EST)
- To: drand@sgi.com (Douglas Rand)
- Cc: nemo@koa.iolani.honolulu.hi.us, www-style@www10.w3.org
> No, this would be a big mistake. The information about what tags > require a closing tag, which are implied and which are just elements > (what's the SGML nomenclature for this?) is contained in the DTD. Content models and ommitted tag minimization. It would be a bad idea to declare content models and tag minimization in the style sheet because style sheet languages come and go, and the parsing of a document would change based on the style sheet or style sheet language. A better idea is to a) hard code the HTML empty elements, b) read a DTD where available, c) require XML syntax for elements that are neither described in a DTD nor in the HTML specifications. That means *no* minimization and empty elements that are syntactically different from regular start tags. Paul Prescod
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