From: W Kent Starr <elderburn@...>
Date: 2002-06-13T08:17:39+09:00
Subject: Re: eruby

On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 12:07, Peter Hickman wrote:

> 
> If you want a line break you need either
> 
> Hello<br />  <===============! emphasis added
> World
> 
> or
> 
> <p>Hello</p> <===============! emphasis added
> <p>World</p>
> 
> It's an HTML thing
> 

Bravo! The <p></p> pairing and the <br /> are xml compliant, thus geared
for "the future" while the deprecated leading <p> and <br> are not.
Peter seems to be the only one who expressed this; apologies if I missed
it in someone else's post.

Small point, but a significant one. All new markup should IMO be xml
compliant to save you time, money and hassle in the future. OTOH some of
us are hoping to make the big $$$$ fixing documents that are not! (Using
Ruby to parse them, of course (*_*] )

Regards,

Kent Starr