- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 22:08:22 +0100 (BST)
- To: www-style@w3.org
> > Mikko Rantalainen wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > > Any closing tag could be easily replaced with </> because it's clear > > > in XHTML anyway which starting tag it should be matched with... > It has been in HTML since HTML2. It just has never been implemented > (except by the validator). I wouldn't have thought it terribly useful in HTML because you can only benefit from it when there are no open elements that have optional closing tags. I guess it is not in XML to provide extra redundancy for well formed-ness checking.
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