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Bug 8455 - "></samp>" lines in Zork example try to close an already-closed tag
Summary: "></samp>" lines in Zork example try to close an already-closed tag
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: LC
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2009-12-08 12:03 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 14:32 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description contributor 2009-12-08 12:03:52 UTC
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-pre-element

Comment:
"></samp>" lines in Zork example try to close an already-closed tag

Posted from: 79.180.132.127
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-01-06 05:29:03 UTC
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document:
   http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html

Status: Did Not Understand Request
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: Either I already fixed this, though I don't remember doing so, or I can't see the problem. Can you elaborate?
Comment 2 Ori Avtalion 2010-01-06 09:56:06 UTC
The snippet is this:

<pre><samp>You are in an open field west of a big white house with a boarded
front door.
There is a small mailbox here.

></samp> <kbd>open mailbox</kbd>

<samp>Opening the mailbox reveals:
A leaflet.

></samp></pre>


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The ">"'s that precedes the two "</samp>" tags doesn't have a matching "<tag" to close. They should be removed.
Comment 3 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-01-06 10:13:31 UTC
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document:
   http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html

Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: The >s are just text characters (they're the prompt in the game), they're not part of any tags.