Re: whitespace before the trailing slash

["Carole E. Mah" <carole@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, David Carlisle wrote:
> > Not for HTML, but rather for another DTD which requires the whitespace
> > syntax.
> 
> No DTD can require any particular white space within a tag.
> 
> The only reason for doing it is to use XML syntax on existing HTML
> browsers and exploit their lax error handling.

Indeed, this probably is the end reason in the spec. I am following, yes;
sorry, I should have said "spec" rather than "DTD".
 
-carole
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