I know. The first is an example of illegal HTML (at least, illegal as of XHTML 1.0) and the second is an example of nesting, as I mentioned. In the application Cody Pendant is (writing|maintaining) I would personally accept those as acceptable exceptions: neither will screw up more than the poster's message. As I understood it, the biggest problem with leaving open-ended links or otherwise screwing up the HTML was that the rest of the page would be screwed up as well. These two will get rendered as
<A HREF = link>FOO</A>
and
<!-- -->FOO</A>
respectively (assuming Cody Pendant swaps characters for entities).
LAI
:eof

In reply to Re^4: RegEx for incorrectly closed HTML attribute? by LAI
in thread RegEx for incorrectly closed HTML attribute? by Cody Pendant

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