- From: Andrew Fedoniouk <news@terrainformatica.com>
- Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:50:24 -0700
- To: Bruce Miller <bruce.miller@nist.gov>
- CC: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Sam Ruby <rubys@us.ibm.com>, Neil Soiffer <Neils@dessci.com>, public-html@w3.org, www-math@w3.org
Bruce Miller wrote: > > Henri Sivonen wrote: >> Indeed. I think supporting "/>" in SVG subtrees is a must. MathML >> subtrees probably, too. I don't expect drastic compat problems, since >> tree differences shouldn't propagate too far with subsequent end tags >> taking care of things. > > A minor question: > Is handling <whatevertag/> in HTML5 really a problem? > If the tag ends with />, just note that the element is empty > (ie. has no content, whether or not it is officially an empty element), > and move on. > > _Surely_, no one out there is writing HTML using <whatevertag/> > when they _dont_ mean to close the element?!?!?! > (rolling my eyes :> ) > > But, I guess Hixie will have noticed if anyone _is_ doing that. > > Consider this: <a href=/folder/>something.... is it <a href="/folder/" > or <a href="/folder" /> ? XML and HTML are too different languages. -- Andrew Fedoniouk. http://terrainformatica.com
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