Subject: Re: bug 629
From: Eric W. Sink (eric@sourcegear.com)
Date: Tue Jan 25 2000 - 15:40:37 CST
> </p><p> what we have now
> <br></br> gibberish
> <br> what HMTL expects
> <br/> the XML equivalent of what HTML expects
I think I feel even more strongly than Paul on this issue. Option #3
is the only choice.
HTML is simply not XML-compliant. For a lot of reasons, it cannot be.
Option #1 is semantically incorrect.
Option #2 is simply wrong. In HTML, <br> is NOT a container.
Option #4 is XML, which is wrong.
Option #3 is exactly what a forced line break is, according to HTML as
expressed in both its specification and in *all* of its prevalent
implementations.
Now, if this were the XHTML exporter, then the answer would be
different. ;-)
-- Eric W. Sink, Software Craftsman SourceGear Corporation eric@sourcegear.com
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