> If I understand this right, this means that INPUT, SELECT and TEXTAREA would
> be allowed *anywhere* inside a FORM, which would seem to be undesirable to me
SGML doesn't really allow us to specify what is needed. The HTML+ approach
as you point out allowed form elements outside the context of a FORM element.
That works fine if you can make default assumptions as to how to deal with
the form, e.g. send it to the same URL as that used to retrieve the document.
Following Dan Connolly in HTML 2.0, I switched with HTML 3.0 to the inclusion
mechanism, which is rather a blunt instrument. Whilst it is possible to stop
people from embedding INPUT in a SELECT element etc. it is still possible to
place such fields in unexpected places.
> Would it be better to revert to the HTML+ way of doing things
Perhaps you are right ...
Can we define what the default action is for a missing FORM element?
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