"/>" (was Re: several messages about New Vocabularies in text/html

Henri Sivonen wrote:
> Indeed. I think supporting "/>" in SVG subtrees is a must. MathML 
> subtrees probably, too. I don't expect drastic compat problems, since 
> tree differences shouldn't propagate too far with subsequent end tags 
> taking care of things.

A minor question:
Is handling <whatevertag/> in HTML5 really a problem?
If the tag ends with />, just note that the element is empty
(ie. has no content, whether or not it is officially an empty element),
and move on.

_Surely_, no one out there is writing HTML using <whatevertag/>
when they _dont_ mean to close the element?!?!?!
(rolling my eyes :> )

But, I guess Hixie will have noticed if anyone _is_ doing that.


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