Re: META
Ian Graham (igraham@utirc.utoronto.ca)
Tue, 4 Jul 95 16:33:46 EDT
> Glenn Glenn Adams <glenn@stonehand.com> said:
>
> Date: Tue, 4 Jul 95 15:46:57 EDT
> From: hopmann@holonet.net (Alex Hopmann)
>
> Now lets pretend for a minute that I'm a parser that doesn't understand
> <METADATA>. So I have no idea if <METADATA> is a HEAD tag or a BODY tag.
>
> Perhaps the current spec should be more specific about the treatment of
> such a non-conformant document. For example, it could say:
>
> 1. An unknown element encountered within HEAD shall be interpreted as an
> implicit termination of HEAD and shall be interpreted according
> to the content model:
>
> <!ELEMENT unknown - O ANY>
>
> 2. An unknown element encountered within BODY shall be treated similarly
> except that it shall not terminate BODY.
>
But what if the the elment is followed by more HEAD elements... the above
would then miss the remaining valid head elements. e.g:
<HEAD>
<TITLE> .... </TITLE>
<UNKOWN_TAG> .... </UNKNOWN_TAG>
<BASE HREF="..">
<META ..>
<BODY>
....body stuff:
Ian