On 29 May 2007, at 14:55, Andrew Maben wrote:
On May 29, 2007, at 9:26 AM, David Dorward wrote:
Because, in an HTML document, an XHTML style img tag unambiguously
means "An image element followed by a greater than sign".
Sorry to be dense, I'm trying to grasp this concept. Does (at least
strictly speaking) the inclusion of a forward slash within the tag
of any element prevent the tag in question from being terminated?
No. A forward slash terminates the tag (so the > character is outside
the tag, so its character data).
In HTML all these mean the same thing:
<img />
<img>>
<img>>
(and <title/ foo / means the same as <title> foo </title>)
... because most browsers don't support <img /> correctly in HTML
documents
How is <img /> (or presumably <br />) correctly supported? And
which browsers do correctly support it?
An image (or line break) followed by a > character. So Hello<br /
>World should be rendered:
Hello
>World
(in HTML).
The only browser I know of, off the top of my head, that gets it
right is W3 (and as mentioned, I believe it was intentionally
crippled to cope with fallout from Appendix C). Of course nsgmls and
related programs also get it right.
--
David Dorward
http://dorward.me.uk/
http://blog.dorward.me.uk/
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