42532 - Paragraph optional end tag is not optional in strict and transitional DTDs

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 42312

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect, P3)

Description

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

The three test cases attached are identical except for the DOCTYPE.

They contain content similar to:

   <p> some text
   <div> some more text </div>

...which should be interpreted as:

   <p> some text </p>
   <div> some more text </div>

...since end tags on <p> are optional in the SGML version of HTML4. (i.e., not
in XHTML.)

Currently, it would seem that the strict (and transitional?) DTDs are not taking
the fact that "</p>" is optional into account, and are doing strange things to
the DIV (like not including it or something).

Comment 1

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Attachment: Test case 1: strict doctype

Comment 2

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Attachment: Test case 2: transitional doctype

Comment 3

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Attachment: Test case 3: invalid doctype

Comment 4

[rickg]

Fix in hand. Marking dup of 42312.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 42312 ***

Comment 5

[Jan Carpenter]

verified