Subject: RE: Newbie encoding query
From: "Passin, Tom" <tpassin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 15:59:19 -0500
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[ Mike Brown]
>
> Passin, Tom wrote:
> > Yes, but the open and close tags of the html, head and body
> elements
> > are optional (the title element is mandatory and so are its
> close and
> > open tags, although I have never seen a browser that
> complains about
> > it being missing).
>
> How do you figure that <html>, <head>, and <body> are
> optional? The HTML 4.0 spec seems to say otherwise.
>From the DTD in the HTML 4.01 Rec -
<!ELEMENT HEAD O O (%head.content;) +(%head.misc;) -- document head -->
<!ELEMENT TITLE - - (#PCDATA) -(%head.misc;) -- document title -->
<!ELEMENT HTML O O (%html.content;) -- document root element -->
<!ELEMENT BODY O O (%block;|SCRIPT)+ +(INS|DEL) -- document body -->
Very clear, right? Those tags are optional. Aren't you glad you don't
have to design the parser?
Cheers,
Tom P
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