- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 07:15:43 -0700
- To: "Mark Baker" <distobj@acm.org>, "Slim Amamou" <slim.amamou@alpha-studios.com>
- Cc: public-cdf@w3.org
On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 07:12:59 -0700, Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org> wrote: > [...] > >> " >> /Start tag: *required*, End tag: * required > > That's from the HTML spec. The XHTML 1.0 spec says; > > "Empty elements must either have an end tag or the start tag must end > with />" > -- http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#h-4.6 > > which that example uses. Moreover, the example uses the > HTML-backwards-compatible " />" (with a preceding space) form of > closure. FYI, it's not HTML backwards compatible given that HTML requires an end tag. This would only be "backwards compatible" if the element was in fact an HTML empty element. That should be somewhere in Appendix C of XHTML 1.0. Not that it matters, of course as WICD is not aimed at being HTML compatible as I understand it. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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