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On 3 Aug 2007, at 16:45, David Carlisle wrote:
<b/>abc If you send it with an html mime type, then what you _should_ This reminds me that I got my previous account of the sequence of SGML syntax curiousities slightly wrong. Just for the sake of insane completism: the 'NET' hack was the enabling of the feature where, if the start tag ended with '/' rather than '>', then the next '>' closed the element, without requiring a complete close tag. Thus "<b/bold text>" was valid, and equivalent to <b>bold text</b> (!). Thus, immediately, <b/> generated an element with no content. I think. I'm not sure I could face ISO-8879 again[1]. David is right: I don't believe there was _ever_ a browser which contained an SGML parser. Norman [1] It disturbs me that I didn't have to look this number up.
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