- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:15:27 +0000
- To: "Michael\[tm\] Smith" <mike@w3.org>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
Michael[tm] Smith writes:
> Sure, but then that <a> element is no longer serving any actual purpose in
> your document at all. So it's not a very compelling example of a real use
> case in need of polyglot markup.
The void element issue comes up all over the place. I just checked a
small subset of the XHTML I have lying around, and 37 out of 100 had
<p></p>
35 out of a (different) 100 had
<p/>
I also found 56 instances of XHTML files with one or more of
<title></title>
<a></a>
<td></td>
<strong></strong>
alongside 25 instances of XHTML files with either or both of
<td/>
<title/>
so this is not a corner case.
ht
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