- From: William F Hammond <hammond@csc.albany.edu>
- Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 11:32:45 -0500
- To: www-math@w3.org
<juanrgonzaleza@canonicalscience.com> writes:
> . . .
> * The "/>" empty tag syntax actually has totally different meaning in
> HTML4. (It's the SHORTTAG minimisation feature known as NET, if I
> recall the name correctly.) Specifically, the XHTML
> . . .
Yes.
"<br/" is equivalent to "<br>".
IMO this is a bug in the HTML 4 specification.
> . . .
> ... is XML, by forcing <br> syntax instead <br/> or <br /> one
> obtains ...
For XML one may use either "<br></br>" or "<br/>", but "<br>" alone
violates the "well-formed" requirement (XML spec).
-- Bill
Received on Wednesday, 8 November 2006 16:33:04 UTC