<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Mar 2, 2007, at 12:20 PM, Nicholas Shanks wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>it also helps remove redundancy when you have any two tags opening and closing at the same place, such as <a><abbr>foo</abbr></a> (or <abbr><a>foo</a></abbr> — which is better anyway?)</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>I would say <a><abbr>foo</abbr></a> -- the abbreviation is the think that is linked, but the <a> element is not part of the abbreviation. </DIV></BODY></HTML>