Re: After your "No p element in scope but a p end tag seen." please add " Remember p elements can't be nested" from Philip Taylor on 2013-09-20 (www-validator@w3.org from September 2013)

From: Philip Taylor <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 12:29:03 +0100
To: "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>, Ruud Steltenpool <r.g.steltenpool@saxion.nl>
CC: www-validator@w3.org
Message-ID: <523C317F.9010601@Rhul.Ac.Uk>

Jukka K. Korpela wrote:

> There are myriads of reasons why a document may contain a homeless
> end tag

Agreed.  But it is surely not beyond the wit of a well-designed
validator to identify the reason for the orphan and to report it,
is it not ?  Where the specification allows for implicit closure
of an open element on encountering an element that would not
be permitted within the scope of the open element (some would argue
that this represents a major design error in the specification, but
that is not relevant here), then a well-designed validator could
usefully report why the apparently-open element had been closed
if and only if an error results therefrom.

Philip Taylor

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