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On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:27 AM, James Clark <jjc@j...> wrote:
It turns out that they do not. HTML5 says that the error recovery for
<br></br> is to treat it as <br><br> (I find this bizarre in the extreme.) The spec is hard to read but you can see it in
http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/tokenization.html#parsing-main-inbody An end tag whose tag name is "br" Parse error. Act as if a start tag token with the tag name "br" had been seen. Ignore the end tag token. There is a handy tool for seeing how the HTML5 spec recovers from errors:
http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/ James
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