"/" End of element in SOAP 1.1

I didn't find the answer to my questions in the archives of the newsgroup,
so here is my question :

in SOAP 1.1 (www.w3.org/tr/soap), the example 2 in 1.3 and some examples in
A.1 and A.2 are like the following :

<SOAP-ENV:Envelope
  xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
  SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"/>
[...]
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>


My question concerns the "/" at the end.
Is that XML compliant or is it a error ?



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