- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 10:10:29 -0800
- To: Jukka Korpela <Jukka.Korpela@hut.fi>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
At 07:59 AM 12/25/2000 , Jukka Korpela wrote: >As http://www.hut.fi/~jkorpela/html/empty.html explains in some detail, ><meta /> is in fact equivalent to <meta >> according to HTML rules, i.e. >there is the tag <meta > followed by the plain character >. Since no >plain text outside elements is allowed inside the head element, this >implies a syntax error. In the body part, the syntax allows plain text >after a tag, depending on the context and on the DTD. Ah, excellent! I had forgotten that HTML's syntax quirks allow for tags to close early. Thanks, Jukka, this clears it up for me. --Kynn -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://kynn.com/ Sr. Engineering Project Leader, Reef-Edapta http://www.reef.com/ Chief Technologist, Idyll Mountain Internet http://www.idyllmtn.com/ Contributor, Special Edition Using XHTML http://kynn.com/+seuxhtml Unofficial Section 508 Checklist http://kynn.com/+section508
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