- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 08:47:18 +1000
- To: Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>
- CC: www-forms@w3.org
Dave Raggett wrote: >>> Internet Explorer honors the /> syntax for empty elements whereas >>> Firefox and Opera, for instance, do not. >> >> IE only honours that for its non-standard, pseudo-XML nonsense known >> as XML Data Islands. > > My tests used well formed XHTML together with non-html elements, What tests? My tests clearly show it doesn't. View this in IE. http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/?%3C%21DOCTYPE%20html%3E%0D%0A%3Cdiv/%3Ediv%0D%0A%3Cp/%3Ep%0D%0A%3Cul%3E%3Cli/%3Eli%3C/ul%3E > but without the <xml></xml> element that most people think of > when talking about XML data islands. In this case, I was actually thinking of the way IE handles xmlns:foo attributes and elements with namespace prefixes. e.g. <xf:model>. But in both cases, IE doesn't really use XML processing and can build broken DOMs. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/
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