Re: Empty element tags

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 2:12 PM, David Lee <David.Lee@marklogic.com> wrote:

> What if I am not writing HTML.   It seems odd that an uXML parser would
> complain if I wrote <br></br>****
>
> but not <foo></foo>****
>
> ** **
>
> Wouldn't it be simpler to simply let users hang themselves as if they were
> writing HTML ?
>

+1. We shouldn't have special words in the spec for the HTML vocab.  I'm
sure there will be a separate advisory document on best practices for
HTML-compatible MicroXML, just as there has been for XHTML and "XHTML5".


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