- From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 00:33:23 -0400
- To: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- Cc: public-microxml@w3.org
On Wed, 2012-09-05 at 22:26 -0400, John Cowan wrote: > Liam R E Quin scripsit: > > > Are we also requiring a space in <br /> as opposed to <br/> ? > > I believe you are conflating the old HTML4/XHTML 1.x polyglot requirements > with HTML/XHTML5 polyglot. No space is required for HTML5 validity. The space is only required if you want your Web page to work in pre-HTML 5 mode. A necessity in practice in many (most?) cases. If µXML is to work in HTML user agents, the XHTML 1.x rules still apply, seems to me. > By the way, representing a void element (HTML5 jargon for an element > whose content model is EMPTY) with a start-tag/end-tag pair is > invalid, but only in the case of "<br></br>" does it have bad effects. I suspect it can have bad effects in other cases, but that you have to work harder to produce them (e.g. with CSS and display: block). But we're veering off-topic I think. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Co-author, 5th edition, "Beginning XML", Wrox, 2012. No, Beginning XML is not just "X". :)
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