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On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 19:14:32 -0600, Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: About the spec thing, isn't it something from SGML heritage? I mean, didn't XML introduce the shortcut <br /> for <br></br> thus disallowing the SGML <br> on itself (without closing tag)? And wasn't it also SGML heritage that allowed <option selected> and XML forced more strict rules and made it <option selected="selected">?
Any of you folks care to clue the rest of us in? And we're still struggling to get rid of our past Truer words have never been spoken ;-) :D NOTE: While this may seem off-topic for XSL-List, I would argue that based on the various problems associated with the rendering of HTML via an XSLT transform and <tag></tag> and <tag/> this is really and important topic closely related to XSLT from several different perspectives. -- /M:D M. David Peterson http://mdavid.name | http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2354 | http://dev.aol.com/blog/3155
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