On 5/2/07, Milian Wolff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 03. Mai 2007 schrieb Milian Wolff: > Validate the following document: > http://milianw.de/misc/empty_tags.html Woha, just pushed it through validome and it says indeed that the trailing slashes are not allowed in html! Now I'm speechless!
Because HTML is not XML and XHTML (XML) is not HTML. :) [Tim Berners-Lee based a fair bit HTML's syntax on SGML][1]. SGML and XML don't have the same notion of empty tags. Now can you imagine if all web browsers displayed a parsing error instead of your rendered HTML document because people (or software) put a trailing slash on <br> tags by honest mistake? This is one reason why the debate rages on concerning display of XHTML documents as application/xhtml+xml. -s [1]: http://hsivonen.iki.fi/thesis/html5-conformance-checker.xhtml#history _______________________________________________ Markdown-Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
