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Re: [xsl] Associating javascript with XSL and XML

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Rob,

At 08:45 AM 1/5/2010, you wrote:

On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 14:09 +0100, Martin Honnen wrote:
> Rob Belics wrote:
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> > Little known factoid: the html, body and head opening and closing tags
> > are all optional.
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> But not in XHTML served as XML.
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Ah, ok, because we have to not let the browser guess at how to layout
the DOM?

Not exactly.

Tag omissibility is a feature of SGML but not of XML. It is one of several features in SGML that creates dependencies between documents and their DTDs, since when tags are omitted they have to be inferred, and without a DTD there is no basis for such inferences. Since XML wanted to enable parsing documents without DTDs, such features were removed.

(This is OT for XSLT though.)

Cheers,
Wendell

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