[thelist] Weird tag

[Pete Prodoehl]

Maximillian Schwanekamp wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I've been given a right mess of a site to maintain, and aside from the 
> unfortunate markup generally there's something I'm baffled about: many 
> pages are littered with an <XP> tag.  At first I thought someone must 
> have been trying to remove the <P> tags without deleting them(??), but 
> they're all over the place in the document (no DOCTYPE, btw) and the 
> site has some other oddities...so anyway is this tag something I should 
> know about?  Some kind of MS Office-related element?  Example code:
> 
> <xp><b><a name="#productdb">Unlimited Product Database</a></b> <br>
> <br>Professional Cart Solutions allows you to have an unlimited number 
> of physical,
> virtual, or informational products in your product database.&nbsp; </xp>

<joke>
Obviously someone was utilizing "extreme programming" when they built 
the site...
</joke>


Pete