html serialization

[Michael Kay]

I agree, there's a rule missing here from the spec. I've bugged it for you
at

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=6723

Please sign up as a CC to the bug entry if you want to track the resolution.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

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> [mailto:http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk] On Behalf Of Matthias Brantner
> Sent: 23 March 2009 10:34
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> Subject:  html serialization
> 
> Hello,
> 
> the HTML specification (http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/) says 
> that div, textarea, and script tags require an end tag to be 
> present. It seems to me that this doesn't allow those tags to 
> be empty element tags (e.g. <script/>). However, the HTML 
> serialization chapter of the XSLT and XQuery serialization 
> specification (http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-xquery-serialization/
> ) doesn't define this. It only defines elements that must not 
> have an end-tag for empty elements.
> 
> Am I missing something here? Do you think that this should be 
> added to the serialization specification?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Matthias
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