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Re: HTML Improvement/Suggestion

From: David Dorward <david@us-lot.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 10:49:53 +0000
To: www-html@w3.org
Message-ID: <20051213104953.GB6609@us-lot.org>

On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 11:41:26AM +0100, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> Quoting David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>:

>> (My perception here is that Ann was expressing the false argument for
>> XHTML that making all tags non-optional produces a better defined parse
>> tree; which basically fails to realise that the tags are implied, even
>> though not physically present.)
 
> I'm not sure how tags can ever be implied in XHTML.

They can't. That is the main difference between HTML and XHTML. The
point is that XHTML does not create a better defined parse tree
because of this.

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David Dorward                                      http://dorward.me.uk 
Received on Tuesday, 13 December 2005 10:50:41 GMT
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