- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 23:42:02 +0000 (UTC)
On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Henri Sivonen wrote: > > What should text/html flavor conformance checkers say about <foo />? > > Silently treat as <foo>> as per SGML? > Silently treat as <foo> as per real world? > Report a warning? > Report an error? > > What about <foo/>? > > I am leaning towards reporting an error. Both would be treated as <foo>, and would report with a parse error (unexpected character "/" during attribute tokenisation in the first case, and during tagname tokenisation in the second). -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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