See http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/tables.html#h-11.2.6 and http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/tables.html#h-11.2.5 - the end tag is optional for TR and TD. It seems like we chose to not add the end-tags.
Will close that ticket. Thanks, +Vinod On Sep 12, 2012, at 9:22 AM, Senthil Kumar wrote: > Hi, > > I came across the JIRA > MAPREDUCE-2993<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-2993>, > which > describes this bug. I was able to fix this issue. But there is a test in > TestHamlet.java which explicitly tests that, hamlet should not generate the > closing tags for td and tr. Is there any reason why generation of closing > tag is disabled for these tags. The page seems to be working fine even > after the fix. > > Regards > Senthil