RE: how to close html tags : link, meta,...

> From: Julian Reschke [mailto:julian.reschke@xxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 8:54 AM
> Subject: RE:  how to close html tags : link, meta,...
> 
> 
> >
> > But <div/>, which is the element Andrew specifically 
> referred to, is *not*
> > defined as EMPTY in the DTD.  It should not be written minimized.
> 
> If the spec would really forbid that, this would be a bug in the spec.

Section 4.3 of the XHTML spec says: "All elements other than those declared
in the DTD as EMPTY must have an end tag. Elements that are declared in the
DTD as EMPTY can have an end tag or can use empty element shorthand . . ."
Section 2.1 defines "must" as indicating a mandatory requirement either on
the implementation or on conformant documents.  So if Saxon 7.x were to spit
out <div/> when serializing XHTML output, I'd report it as a bug.

If this is a bug in the spec, at least it's one that works to an author's
advantage, in that it makes it easier to produce XHTML for applications that
may not be fully conformant, and it still meets the requirements for
well-formedness.

cheers,
b.

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