• From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w...>
• To: rjelliffe <rjelliffe@a...>
• Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:01:33 -0500

On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 21:25 +1100, rjelliffe wrote:

>  I have a strong memory of being told in the 90s (and trying it out) 
>  that "/>"
>  would work in HTML parsers for XHMTL if there was a space before:  eg 
>  "<br />".
>  I had thought it applied to XML tags in general, but it seems not.

See http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/guidelines.html

It did in HTML4 browsers, or at least when we tested it at the time it
was reported to work that way - they added an attribute called "/".

It only worked for elements declared EMPTY - or, more precisely,
hard-wired to be EMPTY - in HTML browsers, so you could not write <p/>
and get anything you might have expected. Unless you expected what
you got, of course ;-)

Best,

Liam

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• References:
  • MicroXML
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  • Re: MicroXML
    • From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@i...>
  • XML5: Re: MicroXML
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  • Re: XML5: Re: MicroXML
    • From: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
  • Re: XML5: Re: MicroXML
    • From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@i...>
  • Re: XML5: Re: MicroXML
    • From: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
  • Re: XML5: Re: MicroXML
    • From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@i...>
  • Re: XML5: Re: MicroXML
    • From: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
  • Re: XML5: Re: MicroXML
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