On 11/29/06, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen at iki.fi> wrote: > > Anyway, as Lachlan already pointed out, whether or not the useless > slash should be allowed on elements whose content model is empty is > not an issue of technical damage to parsing interoperability but > about damage to the mental model of confused authors. So the cost to > consider is the cost of the confusion. Hmm, I've found the explanations most unsatisfactory so far. The tone is dismissive, pedantic, and dogmatic... though I agree with the goals. Perhaps it would be better to prove that the current rules result in easy explanations. What would the text of a bug filed on WordPress look like? Let's assume you actually want them to fix it, not just make a point. -- Robert Sayre "I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time."Received on Wednesday, 29 November 2006 08:10:10 UTC
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