XML style closing syntax

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Test Case</title>
</head>
<body>
<img src="somegraphic.gif" alt="" />
</body>
</html>



The above code validates as HTML 4.01 transitional - even though the img tag
has XML style closing syntax

can someone tell me if this is correct?

thanks


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