Osamu: I didn't receive your earlier message.  Did you get a bounce ?
Also, you've misoperated the BTS and failed to do the reassignment but
never mind since I think you're wrong :-).

You write:
> You are using short hand notation of SGML.  If I use my human text
> parser, I think your first <tag/ line is expanded to

 nsgmls spec.sgml

produces this output

 ACOMPACT IMPLIED
 (TAGLIST
 (TAG
 (TT
 -if 
 (VAR
 -condition
 )VAR
 )TT
 )TAG
 (TAG
 (TT
 -elif 
 (VAR
 -condition
 )VAR
 )TT
 )TAG
 (TAG
 (TT
 -else
 )TT
 )TAG
 (TAG
 (TT
 -fi
 )TT
 )TAG
 (ITEM
 (P
 -Lines following 
 [etc]

which is exactly what I would have expected.  The DTD for a taglist
has this to say:

 <!ELEMENT taglist - - (tag+,item)+>

That is, an item may be preceded by one or more tags.

Your supposition about the behaviour of the processing system may be
correct but that behaviour is wrong.  In any case, under no
circumstances should output just vanish.

Ian.


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