- From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 09:12:12 +0100
- To: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- Cc: public-microxml@w3.org
On 07/09/2012 03:41, John Cowan wrote: > It's not valid in HTML5 to write a void element as a start-tag/end-tag > pair. It is likewise not valid to write a non-void element with an > empty-tag. Yes true and that's why I pushed the polyglot spec to make xml well formed and html5-valid as pre-requisites for the document before it starts enumerating the extra conditions required to get compatible xml and html parse. (The <mfrac><p>a</p> example I posted in this thread is similarly not valid). But I was addressing Stephen's explicit point that perhaps html change may specify that /> denotes empty/void. I think that is very unlikely (and convergence with XML is a more or less explicit non-goal in the whatwg). David ________________________________________________________________________ The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales with company number 1249803. The registered office is: Wilkinson House, Jordan Hill Road, Oxford OX2 8DR, United Kingdom. This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. ________________________________________________________________________
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