- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 18:17:03 +0200 (EET)
- To: Klaus Schmid <klaus.schmid@wtal.de>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, Klaus Schmid wrote: > what are the rules for using end tags Some end tags are omissible, some are not. The omissibility is indicated in the <!ELEMENT> declaration the use of the letter "O" in an appropriate place. In XML, and hence in XHTML, end tags are never omissible. > <hr><p><small><a > href="view-source:http://jedscripts.freelinuxhost.com/index.htm" > >This Page </a>Is <a > href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer" > >Valid </a><a > href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/" > >HTML 4.01 </a>Strict!</small></p></body> > > are the last two needed really? The tags </p> and </body> (as well as the following </html>) can be omitted in "classic" (pre-XHTML) HTML. But why do you ask? It's always been a good practice to include them, and the gain in file size achieved by omitting them is _really_ small. By the way, note that first link, though valid, does not conform to specifications, since it uses the view-source: (pseudo-)URL, which has not been included into any published specification. On the other hand, the entire paragraph is worse than useless, see http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/validation.html#icon (replacing the icon by equivalent text does not really make things much better). -- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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