Subject: Re: Re unterminated HTML (was XSL: xt question) From: clilley <chris@xxxxxx> Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 19:15:32 +0200 |
Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: > > >Re problems with <BR> -- I've been solving this by a global-replace of <BR> > >with <BR></BR>, taking advantage of the fact that HTML ignores tags (such > >as /BR) that it doesn't recognize. > > > > Be careful! I tested this one, and at the very least Netscape 4.0.5 for the > Mac interprets </BR> as <BR>, that is <BR></BR> places a dobule line break > instead of a single line break like <BR>. This should probably be > classified as a bug. It gets worse - some popular browsers will use the </BR> to close whatever they consider to be the innermost open element (unlikely to be BR). The many and varied bugwards compatibility hacks in current HTML rendering will only bite you from all directions if you try to "render to HTML". -- Chris XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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