Re: Empty element tags

Uche Ogbuji scripsit:

> > Wouldn't it be simpler to simply let users hang themselves as if
> > they were writing HTML ?
>
> +1. We shouldn't have special words in the spec for the HTML vocab.
> I'm sure there will be a separate advisory document on best practices
> for HTML-compatible MicroXML, just as there has been for XHTML and
> "XHTML5".

HTML is mentioned in one of our goals, and James's original idea was
that a document which is both well-formed MicroXML and valid XHTML would
by definition be valid HTML5.  I think that's still something worth
pursuing.

In any case, if we want HTML compatibility, we absolutely must have
empty tags because of the "br" element.

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