Use of empty element shortcut for accidentally empty elements.

Some while ago I realised that the XHTML1.0 spec (in section 4.3) 
licences the empty element shortcut (<xxx/>) only for elements defined 
as empty in the DTD; so that <br/> is legal but <p/> is not.

Recently I pointed this out to somebody on a mailing list 
(http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous/t/7df119e31a7c30a9?hl=en) 
and he replied that the W3C validator accepted forms such as <p/>.

I have verified that this is the case.

As things stand, this appears to me to be a bug in the validator - or is 
there some sort of update to the spec which allows it?

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