Except for ISINDEX, of course ;-).
Is there any reason that a revised (next edition: NOT 2.0!) HTML spec could
not make HEAD and BODY elements mandatory, with an *advisory* to support
their absence through a suitable parsing of head/body content elements?
By and large, gentle authors do what the HTML spec formally says is
allowed. Right now ,it says that HEAD is optional, so it gets left out.
> Only if you're doing strict SGML parsing. Most browsers don't do this,
> so they can bend the rules if they wish, to cater for garbage inserted
> by the unwary or untrained user.
>
> ///Peter