On 3 Aug 2007, at 16:45, David Carlisle wrote:
<b/>abc
If you send it with an html mime type, then what you _should_
get is the same as if the input had been >abc with a visible >
sign, but
This reminds me that I got my previous account of the sequence of
SGML syntax curiousities slightly wrong.
Just for the sake of insane completism: the 'NET' hack was the
enabling of the feature where, if the start tag ended with '/' rather
than '>', then the next '>' closed the element, without requiring a
complete close tag. Thus "<b/bold text>" was valid, and equivalent
to <b>bold text</b> (!). Thus, immediately, <b/> generated an
element with no content. I think. I'm not sure I could face
ISO-8879 again[1].
David is right: I don't believe there was _ever_ a browser which
contained an SGML parser.
Norman
[1] It disturbs me that I didn't have to look this number up.
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