Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Funny HTML Tags

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Jay Buffington wrote:

> I was reading this article:
> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1401422,00.asp in PC Magazine
> and I'm confused by the HTML snippet they provide (3/4 of the way
> down).  What is with all the <\> (or rather &lt;\> if you're
> reading this in a client that parses HTML).
> 
> That's not part of XHTML, is it?  It was displayed that way in the print
> version, too.

This looks like a busted attempt to specifiy a quoted character in 
the original to me.  If this is XHTML, everything needs to have a 
close tag.  So in XHTML you see stuff like this:
<p>
An XHTML paragraph tag needs to be closed.
</p>
<p>
Even an empty image tag needs to be closed.
</p>
<img src="notareal.gif" />

What probably happened here is that somebody was trying to use 
back-slashes in front of slashes to quote them like this <\/> and 
then it got run through a lame filter to produce what you see.

Not an inspiring example of proof-reading at the very least...

jking

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