Nofollow in . Wrong, but does it work

[Sebes]

I have a client using the following construct throuout the site:

linktext
linktext2
linktext3

This is obviously wrong, but does it work? Does Google / bing recognize all links in the paragraph as nofollow? Any ideas / opinions?

[ChrisDyson]

nofollow is a value assigned to an <a>element so assigning it to</a>

<a>is incorrect.</a>

<a></a>

<a>You can read more here: </a>http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-nofollow