- From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 07:09:24 -0500
9.1.2.1 states: Then, if the element is one of the void elements, then there may be a single U+002F SOLIDUS character. This character has no effect except to appease the markup gods. As this character is therefore just a symbol of faith, atheists should omit it. The second sentence is false, and also likely to cause unnecessary conflict with fundamentalists who don't understand markup and don't get the joke. But mostly it's false. I suggest rewriting as follows: This character has no effect when the document is parsed by an HTML5 parser. However, if the document when parsed by an XML parser, the trailing slash converts the tag into an empty-element tag, and thereby makes an otherwise malformed element well-formed. -- ?Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo at metalab.unc.edu Java I/O 2nd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeaulait.org/books/javaio2/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596527500/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA/
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