- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:56:29 +0000
- To: public-xml-core-wg@w3.org
ht writes:
> 3) 'void' elements [3] -- the name is non-standard, and the
> requirement:
>
> "Polyglot markup uses the minimized tag syntax for void elements,
> e.g. <br/>, rather than the alternative syntax <br></br>."
Well, necessary, but overly restrictive. "<br></br>" will not work as
HTML, so it has to be avoided, but not mentioning "<br />" is a
mistake -- it should be explicitly offered, don't you think?
I've checked that it is accepted by validator.nu. . .
ht
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