Re: validation error with script element?

At 2001-03-27T22:03-0800, Michael Newton wrote:-

> i had some xhtml pages with the following line in them:
>
> <script src="default.js" type="text/javascript" defer="defer" />

>                              shouldn't the validator have told me that the
> minimized format wasn't applicable to this tag?

No. Section 3.1 of the XML recommendation[1] says "Empty-element tags may
be used for any element which has no content, whether or not it is
declared using the keyword EMPTY", although "For interoperability, the
empty-element tag should be used, and should only be used, for elements
which are declared EMPTY."

Tim Bagot

[1] <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#sec-starttags>

Received on Wednesday, 28 March 2001 02:02:55 UTC