On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 09:30:58 +0000, David Carlisle <>
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
