Gregor J. Rothfuss wrote: > Tim Williams wrote: > >I am not completely sure that it matters, but I felt like some of my > >issues yesterday with the stylesheet might have been namespace related > >(i.e. the source doc had a trailing "slash" and the stylesheet did > >not). The standard seems to indicate with a trailing slash, I suspect > >most tools would be forgiving on this anyway and I'm not sure that it > >really matters but it seems we should pick one and run with it. > > it does matter. tools are not at liberty to ignore trailing slashes.
Both xmllint and Jing complain about the trailing slash. http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/xhtml20_relax.html does not use a trailing slash. Yet the examples do use a trailing slash at http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/conformance.html Confused. -David
