Re: Empty element tags

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 6:47 PM, John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> wrote:

> Gabrielle Serra scripsit:
>
> > I have a question about compatibility to our goal #8 MicroXML shall be
> able
> > to straightforwardly represent HTML
> >
> >  <!ELEMENT BR <http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/text.html#edef-BR> -
> O
> > EMPTY -- forced line break -->
> >
> > means <br> is an empty element without a closing tag ? or means <br/> is
> > allowed ?
>
> Both <br> and <br/> work to force a line break; indeed, loose slashes are
> always ignored in HTML5 start tags.  Unfortunately, </br> *also* forces
> a line break, so <br></br> will give you two line breaks.  This is why
> my editor's draft has a special rule requiring any element named "br",
> when empty, to be expressed with an empty-tag.  (No semantics are given
> or required).
>
> Fortunately, no other HTML element has this property.  If you write <meta
> blah-blah-blah></meta>, the close-tag is just ignored.
>

ok, thank you for explanations.

Gabrielle

>
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> Don't be so humble.  You're not that great.             John Cowan
>         --Golda Meir                                    cowan@ccil.org
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