- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 00:43:48 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Peter Favrholdt <pfavr@how.dk>
- Cc: "www-validator@w3.org" <www-validator@w3.org>, ot@w3.mag.keio.ac.jp
On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, Peter Favrholdt wrote:
>
> But, I think I've found a bug in the validator regarding the <body> tag:
> if the <body> tag misses the trailing > it is not detected!
That's not a bug, it's the SGML SHORTTAG TAGC omission feature.
<foo<bar>
...is equivalent to
<foo><bar>
...and
<foo
<bar>
...is similarly equivalent to
<foo
><bar>
So as long as the next character after your "<body" tag is a "<", it's
valid. Note that using such features in HTML documents is discouraged as
basically no popular web browser supports them.
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