[whatwg] [html5] STYLE and SCRIPT elements should not be closed at </

J. King mtknight at dark-phantasy.com
Thu Jan 27 11:50:05 PST 2005


On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:36:06 -0500, J. King <mtknight at dark-phantasy.com>  
wrote:

> Forgive my ignorance, but wouldn't that prevent it from being an XML  
> application as well?  I thought XML too great pains to be compatible  
> with SGML.  If such a change would not prevent a hypothetical HTML 5  
> from being a conformant XML application, why can the rules not be  
> expressed in SGML?

Never mind.  I had a moment of vacuousness there; I should have  
remembered, of course, that HTML and XHTML are not identical in their  
handling of those elements.

-- 
J. King
http://jking.dark-phantasy.com/


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