Make --html4tags the default?

[Milian Wolff]

Am Mittwoch, 02. Mai 2007 schrieb Yuri Takhteyev:

> According to the document cited by Allan, "<br />" and "<hr />" are

> not valid HTML4 tags.  I believe this is true. 


Validate the following document:
http://milianw.de/misc/empty_tags.html

The spec says: Start tag: required, End tag: forbidden
An end tag is something like "</a>" or similar. I can't find anything which 
says that the above is not valid html 4.01.


> Whether it matters is 

> a different question - most browsers seem to handle them fine when fed

> "HTML4" and there some benefits in having the documents be kind-of

> parsable as poor man's XML even if they don't fully conform to XHTML

> specifications.


Yes! I think it's a great to be able to use a simple xml parser for html 
documents (it is far easier).
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Milian Wolff
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