Re: to </p> or not to </p>

David Corbin <[email protected]> Mon, 22 Sep 2003 17:57:30 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.enhydra.xmlc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Monday 22 September 2003 13:45, Jacob Kjome wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> So, does anyone have a problem with modifying XMLC to force <p> tags to be
> ended with </p>?  Obviously, either form is legal HTML4.01, but ending <p>
> tags with </p> seems like the more correct thing to do and matches up with
> the the next wave of HTML which is XHTML.  People really should get used to
> this at this point, but I'm asking for opinions here because I don't want
> to break everyone's layouts unnecessarily.


I'm all for encouraging people (and XMLC) to move more toward XHTML.  I've 
been using it for a year, and while there have been some problems, I think 
it's the right thing to do.  

However, I don't think the way to do that is to break what seems to work right 
now in HTML.


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David Corbin <[email protected]>