- From: Christian Smith <csmith@barebones.com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 19:13:03 -0500
- To: www-validator@w3.org
On Wednesday, March 28, 2001 at 8:33, mimasa@w3.org (Masayasu Ishikawa) wrote: > The SGML declaration of HTML 4.01 says "SHORTTAG YES", which allows > this kind of shorthand markup. However, in this case the null end-tag > (NET) delimiter is "/", so ">" is just treated as character data. > In other words, "<br />" is an equivalent of "<br>>" in this case. > > Try the validator with "Show parse tree" option, then you'll see > that ">" after "<br /" is not parsed as part of markup but as just > a character in the parse tree. Ahh ha. see now. Thanks. In any event then one shuold be very carefull and -not- use this format because a well behaved (are there any?) browser would render that trailing > as character data, no? -- Christian Smith | csmith@barebones.com | http://web.barebones.com He who dies with the most friends... Is still dead!
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