[wp-hackers] p inside blockquote

[Elliotte Harold]

Scot Hacker wrote:

> There is no XHTML rule that says this should happen. Create a test 
> document with a blockquote, without the inner p, and validate it. It's 
> fine. 

This is another difference between strict and transitional XHTML. In 
strict XHTML blockquote cannot contain raw text. the declaration is:

<!ELEMENT blockquote %Block;>

In transitional XHTML the declaration allows raw text:

<!ELEMENT blockquote %Flow;>


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