[l2h] strange </> and <> surrounding <TABLE></TABLE>

[Yotam Medini]

While working on a still less than 1000 lines
LaTeX document I have the following problem.

I have my own {funcdec} environment which is basically 
a customization of standard LaTeX {tabular} environment.
LaTeX & dvips work fine. LaTeX2html work fine in the beginning
producing nice <TABLE>s, but at some point
I get HTML nodes with   </><TABLE>...</TABLE><>  constructs
instead of                 <TABLE>...</TABLE>
for a reason I cannot figure out.

For example:

  </><TABLE CELLPADDING=3>
<TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT">virtual void</TD>
<TD ALIGN="LEFT">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="LEFT">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><A NAME="1504"></A>
                             <A NAME="1505"></A> <B>DipsBasicObject::Dumdum</B>(</TD>
<TD ALIGN="LEFT"><TT>const int id            </TT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="LEFT">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<TT><I>defAttr</I>, </TT></TD>
</TR>
<TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="LEFT"><TT>const CipsVariant&amp;     </TT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="LEFT">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<TT><I>attrVal</I>) </TT></TD>
</TR>
</TABLE><>

I moved one of these troubled tabular instances in the source 
to some lines before, and the it works fine.
Any hint? suggestion for a bypass?
As I am not active in this list could you please
CC me when replying to this message.

thanks -- yotam

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