Re: [xml-dev] Never mind the browser, let's do MicroXML

[David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>]

On 18/12/2010 14:22, Kurt Cagle wrote:
> So you end up with problematic elements such as <br/>, which in XML is
> interpreted as an empty element named "br" with no children, being
> interpreted in HTML5 as <br></br> as an element with an associated text
> node, albeit one with a string-length of 0?

no html5 parses <br/> exactly as if the input had been <br>.
In either case it parses to make a void element with no child nodes.

David