Re: [VE][79] Error Message Feedback

David Dorward wrote:
> Thus your code is roughly equivalent to:
> 
> <a
> href="http:"></a>/www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/05/mod_oks_win2k_warships/>
> Windows for Warships safe for Royal Navy</a>

That's not quite right.  The first slash actually just closes the tag 
which, for empty elements, also closes the element.  However, for 
non-empty elements, it just closes the opening tag and the second slash 
closes the element.  So it is actually equivalent to:

<a 
href="http:"></a>www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/05/mod_oks_win2k_warships/>
Windows for Warships safe for Royal Navy</a>

You can see that if you select "Show Parse Tree" in the validator 
options from the extened interface.

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Received on Sunday, 14 November 2004 03:06:55 UTC