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From: Thomas A. Fine <fine@cis.ohio-state.edu>
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To: marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu, www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Subject: Re: questionable html constructs
Cc: ebina@ncsa.uiuc.edu
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>We are finding the following situations in various HTML sources in the
>web (mostly as a result of automatically generated HTML, e.g. man
>pages), and, to put it mildly, it is confusing our browser and
>ourselves....
>
>... so quasi-authoritative answers (and corresponding cooperation from
>HTML providers) to these questions would be greatly appreciated.
>
>o What is the significance, if any, of <p>'s within a <pre> section?
They are allowed, but I don't know that they should be interpreted,
since the new-lines are also significant. I'd say that they should be
interpreted as ADDITIONAL line feeds; the people who set their code
up otherwise can just fix their html. Ideally, you'd want to realize
that there's a <P> with every new-line, and if so, ignore one or the
other. That's not really a legal treatment of SGML, but it should
produce nice results. Of course it encourages people not to fix
their HTML.
>o What is the significance, if any, of more than one <p> in a row,
> particularly on the same line? And, how about the same situation in
> a <pre> section?
It seems to be legal HTML, so I guess you just throw in a totally empty
paragraph.
>o Is '<' ('<' without the semicolon) a valid construct?
No.
>o Can raw <'s and >'s be in a <pre> section?
No.