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by MarkPilgrim 6074 days ago
I've touched up the example source a bit to be closer (in style) to the original. I may want to talk about "which tags implicitly close others" but that's not the subject of this chapter, and having unclosed tags in the example source is distracting from the main point.
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"which tags implicitly close others" - stuff like this makes me cry. What is the benefit of a format that allows such complicated rules for parsing the document? Flexibility like this on the input is just increasing complexity of the rendering engines and ambiguity of the resulting output.