- From: Parsons, Rick <rick.parsons@eds.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 08:46:13 +0100
- To: "'html-tidy@w3.org'" <html-tidy@w3.org>
Charlie said In XML, since "<empty></empty>" and "<empty />" are semantically equal, I would say convert them. The only place I can see this being a problem for someone running an XML document through tidy might not expect it to make this kind of change. I would be pleasantly surprised if it did this but some might not. I hate to say it, but maybe there should be an option that would default to creating the "<empty />" elements. The drawback is recent browser handling of certain XHTML elements. One we have discussed before is <script src="..." /> in the <head> section. This should be equivalent to <script src="..."></script> but many browsers don't handle it correctly. An option would be fine (and probably useful) but I think the default should be to not to convert. Rick Parsons Bristol, England
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