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Subject: Re: [xsl] Newbie encoding query
From: Mike Brown <mike@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 13:30:03 -0700 (MST)
Passin, Tom wrote:
> [Mike Brown]
> 
> > I suspect that your XSLT processor did not do this because 
> > you did not put a <head> in your document, which is an HTML 
> > error anyway. Fix that. All HTML 
> > documents require a head, title and body:
> > 
> 
> Yes, but the open and close tags of the html, head and body elements are
> optional (the title element is mandatory and so are its close and open
> tags, although I have never seen a browser that complains about it being
> missing).

How do you figure that <html>, <head>, and <body> are optional? The HTML 4.0
spec seems to say otherwise. And sure, a browser will let you call anything
HTML and it will try its best to render it, no matter how invalid the document
is, but that doesn't mean that it's optional. More importantly, for an XSLT
processor to know where and how to insert a <meta> when there's no <head> is
asking a bit much.

Mike

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