Ah here it is:
http://www.wlmark.com/xhtml-html.php

about half way down is a dicussion about <br />, browsers, xml vs sgml and
such matters.

BR,
John

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 6:50 PM, John Nilsson <[email protected]> wrote:

> As it should. I don't think even the XML standard say that <tag></tag> is
> equvalent to <tag/>. I've had problems withd DTDs or Schemas that only
> allowed one form for some definitions.
> Now if you mean IE6 then XML isn't on the topic either way as it only
> supports HTML. IIRC the HTML standard (before version 4) standardized <tag/>
> to mean new line no matter what and <br> is of course a stand alone new line
> even in HTML 4. Maybe </br> shouldn't be treated as a new line. I guess if
> the browser is in tag soup mode it is the sane thing to do.
>
> BR,
> John
>
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 8:27 PM, David Pollak <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Folks,
>>
>> IE barfs on <br></br> (it treats them as 2 BR tags).  What other tags are
>> in this category in IE?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> David
>>
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