Re: self closing elements with attributes

> >I want closed tags because I'm trying to be compliant to the
> emerging
> >standards by using xhtml.
>
> Then your document element *cannot* be "h","t","m","l", and must
> be
> "x","h","t","m","l" and you have to use XML conventions.

That's not what w3c says. (http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#docconf)

A Strictly Conforming XHTML Document is an XML document that requires only the facilities described as mandatory in this specification. Such a document must meet all of the following criteria:

1. It must conform to the constraints expressed in one of the three DTDs found in DTDs and in Appendix B.
2. The root element of the document must be html.
3. The root element of the document must contain an xmlns declaration for the XHTML namespace [XMLNS]. The namespace for XHTML is defined to be http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml. An example root element might look like:

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