On 2013-04-23 21:09, François Pinard wrote:
If I remember well, self-closing
tags date back to SGML, not requiring (but also not forbidding) an
introducing space to the closing slash. SGML does allow for closing
tags to be optionally omitted (and for opening tags as well) but such
optional omissions have to described in the DTD.
Well, in this case you are misremembering, empty elements, aka as
self-closing tags are one of the innovations of XML; they did not exist in
SGML (where you could simple omit the closing tag completely for emtpy
elements).
Just my nit to pick,
Christian
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