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Posted by Toby Inkster on 10/07/05 10:01
Barbara de Zoete wrote:
> <!ELEMENT HTML O O (%html.content;) -- document root element -->
And it's also in the plain English bit:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#h-7.3
| 7.3 The HTML element
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| Start tag: optional, End tag: optional
Similarly, the start and end tags for HEAD and BODY are optional. A valid
HTML 4.01 Strict page can consist of as few as three tags, plus DOCTYPE:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<TITLE>Example</TITLE>
<P>Example
HTML 4.01 Transitional doesn't even need the <P>. Transitional allows
inline text to sit directly inside the BODY, whereas Strict says that you
can only have block-level elements inside BODY.
Note though, that valid HTML does need a BODY *element*. It's just that
the <BODY> and </BODY> *tags* to explicitly show where the BODY element
starts and ends are optional -- the element exists without them. (Ditto
HTML and HEAD elements.)
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Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
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