• From: John Cowan <cowan@l...>
• To: Stefan Mintert <mintert@i...>
• Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 12:46:53 -0400

Stefan Mintert wrote:

>  > 1) Are these documents valid?
>  > 2) What is the content of the TEXT element in each document?
> 
> Below is the answer from nsgmls. Please note that the files are read from
> STDIN (I used ### to separate end of input from begin of output)

Okay, so far so good.  nsgmls doesn't think that leading blanks are
part of the root element (i.e. the start-tag is inferred only when
non-blank content is seen).  Next question: why is this behavior
the Right Thing?

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	You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
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