Alastair Campbell wrote:
On 5/29/07, Nick Fitzsimons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The topic under discussion is, as I mentioned in my earlier post,
mentioned in HTML 4.01 at
<http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/appendix/notes.html#h-B.3.7>
as being something with poor support in HTML user agents.
Which I read, thank you, but unless I'm being particularly thick
(quite possible, it was a long weekend ;), I can't see how that
affects terminating characters. Without the SGML spec, what is a NET
character? It's just frustrating not to be able to get to the source
and find out what these things are.
SGML and HTML Explained by Martin Bryan [1] will explain everything you
need to know about SGML. In particular, chapter 4 explains the SHORTTAG
NET features. Figure 4.4 [2] lists the default delimiter characters
from the reference concrete syntax, which includes:
/ NET Null end-tag
That can be set in the SGML declaration, but because it's not explicitly
set in HTML4, it uses the default.
[1] http://www.is-thought.co.uk/book/
[2] http://www.is-thought.co.uk/book/sgml-4.htm#Fig4-4
--
Lachlan Hunt
http://lachy.id.au/
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