Re: XHTML 1.0 validator at W3C

by Jesse Houwing <j.houwing(at)student.utwente.nl>

Date:	Thu, 04 Oct 2001 01:41:04 +0200
To:	Joshua Graham <JoshuaGraham(at)grahamis.com>
Cc:	hwg-xml(at)hwg.org
References:	idyllmtn grahamis
	todo: View Thread, Original

Joshua Graham wrote:

>I'm surprised that the "br" element is part of the Strict DTD then, as it's
>surely presentation markup.
>
>I tried to see if it was discussed in the HTML list at w3c but their search
>wasn't working. Does anyone know why it was included or an argument as to
>how it's somehow semantic and not for just presentation purposes?
>
You could have written the above text as follows (note the missing empty 
line) :

>I'm surprised that the "br" element is part of the Strict DTD then, as it's
>surely presentation markup.
>I tried to see if it was discussed in the HTML list at w3c but their search
>wasn't working. Does anyone know why it was included or an argument as to
>how it's somehow semantic and not for just presentation purposes?
>
In that case you would've used the <br> instead if the <P> to show that 
not a new paragraph but a new subsection of you current paragraph has 
started.

I know it is possible to do this with some stylesheet work, but the <br> 
would be the right piece of code to use.

Jesse

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