- From: Masayasu Ishikawa <mimasa@w3.mag.keio.ac.jp>
- Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 02:44:04 +0900 (JST)
- To: tsuyoshi@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
ITO Tsuyoshi <tsuyoshi@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> wrote: > To me, it is natural to forbid shorthand representation such as > ``<span />'', because HTML 4.01 parsers might regard it as the > beginning of an element, look for the corresponding end tag and get > confused. Therefore, I am afraid that some statement is missing in > the normative part of the Working Draft. That's just an HTML compatibility issue and mentioned in an informative Appendix C.3 [1]. If you wish to serve your XHTML 1.0 document to HTML user agents, you SHOULD follow that guideline. For XHTML user agents, "<span></span>" or "<span />" must not make any difference. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-xhtml1-20011004/#C_3 Regards, -- Masayasu Ishikawa / mimasa@w3.org W3C - World Wide Web Consortium
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