Dear list, (I am new to this list and I do not know whether this is the right list to post this. Let me know if not.) I have just started reading XHTML 1.0 Second Edition Working Draft (as of 4 October 2001) and I am surprised to see that whole Section 4 became informative. Section 4.3 ``For non-empty elements, end tags are required'' says: > All elements other than those declared in the DTD as EMPTY must have > an end tag. Is this restriction stated in the normative part of the Working Draft? According to Section 4.3, for example, <span> element must not be written as ``<span />'' even if its content is empty; <span> element must have an end tag, so it must be written as ``<span></span>''. To me, it is natural to forbid shorthand representation such as ``<span />'', because HTML 4.01 parsers might regard it as the beginning of an element, look for the corresponding end tag and get confused. Therefore, I am afraid that some statement is missing in the normative part of the Working Draft. Excuse me and let me know if this issue was already discussed before. I tried to find related articles in the list archive, but found nothing. Any related information or pointer is welcome. Thank you. Best wishes, ITO Tsuyoshi -- ITO Tsuyoshi <tsuyoshi@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> -- -- Department of Information Science -- -- in the University of Tokyo --Received on Friday, 21 December 2001 12:16:30 GMT
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