Re: My own taxonomic listing

On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 12:55:01PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:

> In order for HTML to be also XML, the following rules must be satisfied:
>
> 1) All attribute values must be in quotation marks;
Huh.  So adding tags to help my scripts identify content has nothing to do
with it, but the <TH COLSPAN=8> things invalidate it... interesting.

> 3) All start-tags must either have end-tags, or else a / must appear just
> before the closing > of the tag (preceding it with a space avoids problems
> in old browsers);
...and my unclosed <P>s too.

Hmm.  So what I was really trying to describe, which is "adding tags that
aren't part of HTML in order to use other tools on the file transparently",
really needs a whole new word to describe it...

Amanda

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