- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 11:05:55 -0400
- To: "Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@opera.com>
- Cc: "Slim Amamou" <slim.amamou@alpha-studios.com>, public-cdf@w3.org
On 8/14/06, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com> wrote: > On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 07:12:59 -0700, Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org> wrote: > > [...] > > > >> " > >> /Start tag: *required*, End tag: * required > > > > That's from the HTML spec. The XHTML 1.0 spec says; > > > > "Empty elements must either have an end tag or the start tag must end > > with />" > > -- http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#h-4.6 > > > > which that example uses. Moreover, the example uses the > > HTML-backwards-compatible " />" (with a preceding space) form of > > closure. > > FYI, it's not HTML backwards compatible given that HTML requires an end > tag. This would only be "backwards compatible" if the element was in fact > an HTML empty element. That should be somewhere in Appendix C of XHTML > 1.0. Not that it matters, of course as WICD is not aimed at being HTML > compatible as I understand it. Right, I just meant backwards-compatible with existing HTML user agents. Mark.
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