On Apr 23, 2004, at 10:44 AM, Alex Holst wrote:
> Quoting John Peacock (jpeacock@rowman.com):
>> Alex Holst wrote:
>>>
>>> * www/project_faq.html: add FAQ about the status of symlink support.
>>
>> This patch uses <p> without a closing tag, which is legal HTML, but
>> not
>> well formed XHTML. Looking at the current document, it appears that
>> the
>> only time a bare <p> is used is when it has no content (and those
>> should
>> really be rewritten as <p />).
>
> Oh, I didn't realise the document was XHTML. Looks like the server
> inserts the header. Should this be mentioned in HACKING?
>
> I found several other cases of unclosed <p>, which I'll be fixing in a
> new diff. If that's accepted, I can continue with the remaining <p />
> and <hr />.
>
"C. HTML Compatibility Guidelines" recommendation from
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#C_3
C.3. Element Minimization and Empty Element Content
Given an empty instance of an element whose content model is not EMPTY
(for example, an empty title or paragraph) do not use the minimized
form (e.g. use <p> </p> and not <p />).
-Travis
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Received on Fri Apr 23 22:52:22 2004