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- > This is a situation we need to resolve, one way or another. I'm inclined
- > to decide that <p> elements are allowed in PRE elements, but they have
- > no significance.
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- That would complicate certainly the CERN browsers, in that if they see a <p>
- they always do the same thing. They don't have mechanisms for being
- context-sensitive about these things -- they just do the right thing with
- good HTML and don't bomb out with bad html.
-
- I'd prefer us to say that the effect of <P> within <PRE> is undefined, or that
- it is not recommened but if used is a newline. I'd like Thomas to take them
- out of his man pages, but butil then it isn't a disaster, its just double
- spacing. I feel that it would be a kludge to say they had no effect within
- <PRE> ... it would look weird to historians.
-
- --
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- I am prepared to change the <XMP> behaviour to be standard SGML for the sake of
- it even if the example secitions in our documents end up moving up or down a
- line as a result.
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- Tim
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