Format question about "list" output page?

Russ Cox rsc at swtch.com
Wed Sep 13 13:33:38 CEST 2006


It was a mistake and is now fixed.

Russ


On 9/1/06, Gordon Royle <gordon at csse.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was just looking at the HTML generated by the "list" option and
> noticed that each line is represented thusly:
>
> <tr>
> <td align="right"><tt>2</td><td></tt></td> <td align="right"><tt>1</
> tt></td> </tr>
> <tr>
> <td align="right"><tt>3</td><td></tt></td> <td align="right"><tt>2</
> tt></td> </tr>
>
>
>
> Each line consists of THREE <td> items
>
> Item One; <td align="right"><tt>2</td>
>
> Item Two: <td></tt></td
>
> Item Three: <td align="right"><tt>1</tt></td>
>
>
>
> The third item seems to be a correctly nested item   "open td, open
> tt, content, close tt, close td"
>
> But the first and second items seem weird... the second item contains
> ONLY the "close tt" tag, and nothing else.
>
>
> So this means that the td and tt tags are not properly nested, which
> means that the file is not valid HTML, which means that I cannot
> parse it using standard HTML parsers.....
>
>
> Is there a reason for doing this?
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Gordon
>
>
>






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