- From: Frank Ellermann <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de>
- Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 00:59:31 +0100
- To: www-validator@w3.org
David Håsäther wrote:
>> are you telling me that this is another SGML oddity I've
>> never before heard of, an IMPLIEDSEMICOLON=YES maybe ?
> Yes. The semicolon, or REFC (reference close), can be
> omitted if the reference is followed by a character that
> cannot occur in the reference.
> In Jukka's example, the equals sign cannot occur in the
> reference, so REFC will be implied before it.
Fascinating. So my "historically interesting browser" is
actually trying to do the right thing in this case, and it
was unfortunately a "near miss".
As often with SGML I'm _very_ happy about my decision to
start with XHTML 1.0 instead of HTML 4. Thanks for info.
Bye, Frank
Received on Monday, 20 February 2006 00:03:01 UTC