- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 19:26:40 +0300
- To: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org, www-math@w3.org
On Apr 2, 2008, at 19:21, David Carlisle wrote: >> As it stands, it is not allowed in the conformance sense on any >> element--only on "void elements" that have a canonically empty >> content >> model. > > But I think you need to look at that again, that rule makes it > virtually > impossible to embed other languages (even as annotations) without > having > to have the language known in advance to the editor of the html spec. > > > Even in mathml, it's not at all uncommon to see <mrow/> for example, > just as in TeX you often see {} when generating MathML (or TeX) you > often add a group "just in case" and end up with nothing there. I agree with making /> self-closing for elements that get put in the SVG and MathML namespaces. I think we shouldn't change the way things work for HTML elements. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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