• From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@m...>
• To: "xml-dev@l..." <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 06:05:10 -0500

Hi Folks,

What do you call elements such as this:

   <source />

I have always called it an empty element.

I am reading a book on HTML5 and the author uses the terms: standalone element and void element.

What is the correct term?

/Roger

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