Title: Nested Blockquotes – WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML …
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# Nested Blockquotes – WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML …

 *  [jokeofalltrades](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jokeofalltrades/)
 * (@jokeofalltrades)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nested-blockquotes-wordpress-should-correct-invalidly-nested-xhtml/)
 * I just tried to nest two blockquote elements (because I was quoting someone who
   quoted someone else along the way), but I had the option selected to “correct
   invalidly nested XHTML”, and it broke my nesting scheme. The problem is that 
   blockquote elements may be validly nested under the XHTML 1.0 and 1.1 DTDs, so
   that WordPress wasn’t correcting anything that needed correcting.
 * Of course, I’m not the first to discover this problem – it was [reported as a bug](http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1170)
   almost two years ago, and [reposted as a thread in the support forum](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/73825?replies=3)
   last year. But the bug is marked as “closed defect: worksforme”, and I’m not 
   smart enough to tell if that means it will be fixed in the next version, or if
   someone thought they had already fixed it. I’m using 2.1.3, the current stable
   release.
 * Is it fixed? Or should I submit another bug report? Or is there a way to reopen
   the old bug report?
 * Also, while I’m thinking about it – Markdown doesn’t single quotes beginning 
   sentences or at the start of decade abbreviations right. The quote mark at the
   beginning of the number in something like <i>That ’70s Show</i> should be an 
   apostrophe, not an opening (left) single quote.

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 * [blockquote](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/blockquote/)
 * [markdown](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/markdown/)
 * [nested](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/nested/)
 * [nesting](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/nesting/)

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