Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 10/02/06 18:08

Scripsit Gérard Talbot:

> End Tag is forbidden for <link> in HTML 4

Correct.

> <!ELEMENT LINK - O EMPTY -- a media-independent link -->
> at
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/links.html#edef-LINK
> when the O means that the end tag must be omitted.

Not correct. The "O" means that the end tag "omissible". It also appears
e.g. in the declaration of the <p> element, which surely _may_ have the end
tag </p>.

It is the content model EMPTY that makes the end tag disallowed. Ref.: the
SGML standard (ISO 8879), clause 7.3.

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Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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