questionable html constructs

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Date: Fri, 15 Jan 93 00:15:38 -0800
From: marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
Message-id: <9301150815.AA01783@wintermute.ncsa.uiuc.edu>
To: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Cc: ebina@ncsa.uiuc.edu
Subject: questionable html constructs
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We are finding the following situations in various HTML sources in the
web (mostly as a result of automatically generated HTML, e.g. man
pages), and, to put it mildly, it is confusing our browser and
ourselves....

... so quasi-authoritative answers (and corresponding cooperation from
HTML providers) to these questions would be greatly appreciated.

o What is the significance, if any, of <p>'s within a <pre> section?

o What is the significance, if any, of more than one <p> in a row,
  particularly on the same line?  And, how about the same situation in
  a <pre> section?

o Is '&lt' ('&lt;' without the semicolon) a valid construct?

o Can raw <'s and >'s be in a <pre> section?

Marc