- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:13:09 +0200
- To: Sam Ruby <rubys@us.ibm.com>
- Cc: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, public-html-request@w3.org
Sam Ruby wrote: >> On Aug 30, 2008, at 23:01, Lachlan Hunt wrote: >>> <eventsource src="foo"/> is allowed. Isn't that sufficient? > > If a rule can be adopted to avoid one or the other types of additions, then > a generic authoring tool presented with a DOM containing an unrecognized > element could adopt policy that is future proof: either <name></name> or > <name/>, depending on the approach selected. > > Looking at the existing elements and additions, the rule that Lachlan > suggested seems appropriate. Note that my suggestion to use the trailing slash only relates to serialising known void elements using a tool like XSLT that is clearly optimised for serialising XML, not a generic way of representing any empty element, and especially not in any way that would have an effect on parsing. -- Lachlan Hunt - Opera Software http://lachy.id.au/ http://www.opera.com/
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