> > The serializer won't collapse empty div, script, and > textarea elements if they're in the XHTML namespace. > > Hopefully this helps. Please let me know if you have > further questions or concerns. > > Is that enough? I know that in the past, I've had trouble > with empty <em/> tags being misinterpreted by browsers.
It looks like it works for any empty element in that namespace: <x />, <x xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; /> ==> <x/> <x xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";></x> The problem is actually that we tend to set the response type to 'text/html', while we are actually outputting XHTML. The HTML standard doesn't allow this /> shortened notation of empty elements and browsers tend to ignore the / in them, thinking it is actually a start tag instead of an empty tag. The alternative might be to set the response content-type to 'application/xhtml+xml', but you never know what kind of browser (version) someone is using. I think this is the safest approach.. Kind regards, Geert Drs. G.P.H. Josten Consultant http://www.daidalos.nl/ Daidalos BV Source of Innovation Hoekeindsehof 1-4 2665 JZ Bleiswijk Tel.: +31 (0) 10 850 1200 Fax: +31 (0) 10 850 1199 http://www.daidalos.nl/ KvK 27164984 De informatie - verzonden in of met dit emailbericht - is afkomstig van Daidalos BV en is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Indien u dit bericht onbedoeld hebt ontvangen, verzoeken wij u het te verwijderen. Aan dit bericht kunnen geen rechten worden ontleend. _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://xqzone.com/mailman/listinfo/general
