Posted by David Dorward on 11/06/07 15:15

Bone Ur wrote:
> > <title>foo</title>
> > <p>Hello, world
> > <div>Goodbye, world</div>
> >
> > Without knowing HTML (via a DTD or otherwise), the parser has no way
> > to know that it needs to insert an HTML, HEAD and BODY elements, or
> > that the P element should end before the DIV and not after it.
>
> Excepting the situation with the <p> element, don't xhtml parsers have
> the same problem?

No, because the start and end tags for those elements aren't optional.
Since they don't appear in the document, they don't exist.

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