robert_seymour@il.us.swissbank.com

[Holger Hoffstaette]

This is getting out of hand, but anyway..

>> > Cher Monsieur,
>> > Juste un probleme : </p> n'***EXIQSTE PAS**** en html.
>> > Sinceres salutations,
>>
>> Actuellment, c'est proposee dans HTML duex.
>
>Mais bien sur ca existe!!
>En trouve HTML duex a http://www.w3.org/.
>
>Mag sich vielleicht auch jemand auf deutsch streiten :-) ?

Aber gerne doch :-)

SGML docs and this SGML bastardisation called HTML were never meant to be written by human beings. The whole -idea- of SGML is (at least semi-)automatic markup. Of course missing the point of SGML was soo much easier, so CERN and NCSA went ahead and did just that - you can see the results every day. Anyway: Any tag needs a matching close tag -by principle-, regardless whether the closing tag carries any semantic meaning or not. See the <p> example: even though nested paragraphs are not supported, they should at least be -possible- in the future. Bogus HTML just prevents that.
Now flame me for being picky..or ask me why I hate the visual attributes in HTML.

	Holger
	(who uses a Smalltalk-based SGML framework to generate DTD
	conforming HTML)
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