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

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Subject: RE: how to close html tags : link, meta,...
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 12:48:32 -0400

At 12:06 PM 8/13/2003, you wrote:

What a good idea (or hack, if this is what you meant) - I've never
considered it, I don't know why...

<div>
  <dummy/>
</div>

Will stop the element being minimised, won't leave spaces all over your
output and won't incur any processing expense.

Way back at the beginning of this thread, yesterday, I suggested the usual workaround is to put a comment or dummy PI in there ... oh well.

Although, I still think we should have the option when output="xml" to
choose how empty elements are handled, this will do until output="xhtml"
comes along.

Like others, I find myself resisting the idea of extensions that allow us to make a difference where there should be none, just because of a broken processor. If the extension is local to a particular processor, it's merely confusing. If the extension is mandated by the spec, it muddies everything for all time just to deal with a problem of the moment. ("Don't fix IE, change every XSLT engine instead.") As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.

Cheers,
Wendell


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RE: how to close html tags : link, meta,..., (continued)
- Martinez, Brian - Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:50:29 -0400 (EDT)
- Andrew Welch - Wed, 13 Aug 2003 12:06:42 -0400 (EDT)
  - B. Tommie Usdin - Wed, 13 Aug 2003 12:26:51 -0400 (EDT)
  - David Carlisle - Wed, 13 Aug 2003 12:41:55 -0400 (EDT)
  - Wendell Piez - Wed, 13 Aug 2003 13:14:26 -0400 (EDT) <=
- Chris Loschen - Wed, 13 Aug 2003 12:37:55 -0400 (EDT)
  - Mark R. Diggory - Wed, 13 Aug 2003 13:14:03 -0400 (EDT)
    - Wendell Piez - Wed, 13 Aug 2003 14:16:51 -0400 (EDT)
    - Mark R. Diggory - Wed, 13 Aug 2003 15:21:29 -0400 (EDT)

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