Re: Re: Some more information (was: [BUG] in HTMLScriptElementImpl.setText())

On Friday 07 March 2003 11:54, Mark van Leeuwen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've tracked down the bug, guess it was on my side, however with a
> strange behaviour of DefaultDomWriter:

[ ... snip ...]

> OK, the line with <img> tag was intentionnaly indented this way. My
> problem occured because of the trailing slash in the tag. If I remove
> it, it seems fine (must test it on all of my pages). I've looked in
> the w3c specs, and can't find that trailing slash are forbidden in
> HTML pages (of course they are mendatory in xhtml). So is it Tidy's
> fault not warning me it is forbidden with the doctype I gave (or gave
> not), or where does it all go wrong?

You're right, it's Tidy's fault - Tidy is really great for parsing HTML, and 
it does a reasonable job on parsing stuff that looks a bit like HTML but 
isn't (i.e. most of what is out there in the wild :-) but sometimes it 
mangles incorrect HTML in the attempt to parse it. Seems like you've been hit 
by this.

As to where <img /> is allowed in HTML or not - I'm not sure what the specs 
say, but a number of browsers and parsers don't like empty tags that are 
closed with "/>".

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