Re: Little validation quiz!

-----Original Message-----
From: B. Szyszka <bart(at)bgrafyx.com>
To: jallen(at)thunder.ocis.temple.edu <jallen(at)thunder.ocis.temple.edu>;
hwg-theory(at)hwg.org <hwg-theory(at)hwg.org>
Date: maandag 10 augustus 1998 20:15
Subject: Re: Little validation quiz!


>Not at all. The title element and doctype are required, and, as I've said
above,
>the HTML and HEAD -TAGS- are optional.


As are the start and end-tags for BODY.

>> HTML documents require the following elements:  DOCTYPE, HTML, HEAD,
>> TITLE, and BODY (FRAMESET).  All other elements are optional.
>The HTML tag is optional, and I don't believe that the element is assumed
>by anything.

Its presence is implied by the presence of HEAD and BODY elements, as well
as the presence of version information. In a valid HTML document, all that
is not in the DOCTYPE element is (in) the HTML element.

>The HEAD element is assumed by the title element, and the
>BODY element is assumed by elements such as the paragraph, header, etc.,
>but correct me if I'm wrong, there's no assuming for the HTML element.


By HEAD, BODY and version information.

>>TITLE are the only TAGS that must appear in every document,
>Title is most certainly an element, see:
>http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/global.html#edef-TITLE


Everything that has a start tag is an element. Including TITLE (not to be
confused with the attribute title).

>> this, because it gives the false impression that HTML, HEAD, and BODY are
not
>> mandatory parts of every HTML document.
>An HTML document will certainly validate with just the DTD statement
(DOCTYPE)
>and the title element. Everything else, including the body element and
tags, are
>optional.


In the way you mean it, HTML, HEAD and BODY elements are NOT optional;
rather, they are IMPLIED.

Ben Z. Tels
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