Posted by Ben C on 04/23/07 07:47

On 2007-04-23, Robert Maas, see http://tinyurl.com/uh3t <rem642b@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> appears around character position 9202 in the source from Google
> Groups advanced search when there's no such article matching the
> search. Everything looks OK up to the / character. What is that
> doing there?? Why?? In SGML it'd be a NET (is that correct?, which
> would totally screw up the parse here (right?).

I think you may be correct on that. Browsers don't use SGML NET and just
allow XML-style self-closing elements even in HTML, especially if not in
strict mode.

Mr Korpela has explained this a few times, e.g.:

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.html/msg/8aa884007f82504e?hl=en&

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