Re: XML5: Re: [xml-dev] MicroXML

[rjelliffe <rjelliffe@allette.com.au>]

 On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 09:30:58 +0000, David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk> 
 wrote:

> Yes I nearly mentioned those cases as an exception:-) But you give
> the example that's almost reasonable (html/head/body/tbody
> implication) while not responding to the cases that actually cause 
> the
> problems as they affect the parsing of arbitrarily small fragments,
> namely /> and the different handling of end tags for individual void
> elements.

 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.

 Cheers
 Rick Jelliffe