On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 10:15:31PM +0100, David Woolley wrote: > Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: > > >of '<tag some_attributes />', which means fairly exactly > >'<tag some_attributes></tag>'. > > No it doesn't. In XHTML 1.0 written in *Non*-HTML compatible > mode it has this meaning. In HTML it has had a de facto meaning > of simply <tag some_attributes>.
To verify here, is the / actually legal in any version of HTML or XHTML
that does not consider this a closing statement?
If so, does it actually have any _meaning_?
If the answer is no to either of these, then I simply _can't_ see this
as a valid reason not to parse this as stated above.
Especially in a browser that has lynx's handling of <tag/foo/>.
(Try it if you never have, then come back with an explination of why we
should support that and _not_ support a usage that's not all that
uncommon in the wild.)
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* james would be more impressed if netgod's magic powers could stop the
splits in the first place...
* netgod notes debian developers are notoriously hard to impress
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