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[Pancho Horrillo]

Excerpt from HTML::Tree::Scanning

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       Objects of the class HTML::Element each have three noteworthy
attributes:

       "_tag" -- (best accessed as "$e->tag") this element’s tag-name,
lowercased (e.g., "em" for an "em" element).

Footnote: Yes, this is misnamed.  In proper SGML terminology, this is
instead called a "GI", short for "generic identifier"; and the term
"tag" is used for a token of SGML source that represents either the
start of an element (a start-tag like "<em lang=’fr’>") or the end of an
element (an end-tag like "</em>".  However, since more people claim to
have been abducted by aliens than to have ever seen the SGML standard,
and since both encounters typically involve a feeling of "missing time",
it’s not surprising that the terminology of the SGML standard is not
closely followed.  ...

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Have fun!

pancho.

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