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2013-10-10T16:21:38.679-07:00

I found this entry while looking for whether EOLs at the end of, specifically, HTML document files are valid HTML. Here's the relevant link to HTML5 as of today, 2013-10-10 Z, which currently points to a page of the HTML5 "W3C Candidate Recommendation 6 August 2013": http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/syntax.html#writing (HTML5 section 8.1 "Writing HTML documents", until start of section 8.1.1 "The DOCTYPE")

It lists the allowed structure of a HTML file's contents; the last point, numbered 6, also allows "Any number of [...] space characters."; the definition of those includes regular blanks U+0020, as well as both U+000A (LF) and U+000D (CR), among others. This point 6 specifies what is allowed to occur after a document's closing tag of the root (html) element.

Interestingly, apparently standard C specifies that any C language source code file which isn't empty not only is allowed to but rather "shall" end in an EOL, as described here: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2003-11/msg01568.html (referencing ISO C90 (also C99) section 5.1.1.2, based on ANSI C89 section 2.1.1.2; point 2)

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I found this entry while looking for whether EOLs ...