- From: Michael A. Peters <mpeters@mac.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 04:33:19 -0700
- To: "Kratzer, Willi" <willi.kratzer@ts.fujitsu.com>
- Cc: "www-validator@w3.org" <www-validator@w3.org>
Kratzer, Willi wrote: > Validating > http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/Intel-ic11.0-int-linux64-revA.20090331.01..html > <http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/Intel-ic11.0-int-linux64-revA.20090331.01.html> > Error [70]: "end tag for X omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified" > > The validator requests an end tag for <br>. > > <br> means “break” or newline. It does not make any sense to specify > “end of newline”. So it is natural to have <br> with no corresponding > end tag. > > A tag <br> without an end tag is not an error and should not be handled > as an error. > > In my opinion, this is a bug in the validator. The document you linked to is xhtml, which is a subset of xml. All xml tags must be closed regardless of their function. In the case of the br tag, since it never has children that is accomplished by using a self closing tag - <br />
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