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Date:      Wed, 13 Mar 2002 21:22:14 +0000
From:      Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com>, ue@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/alpha proc-alpha.sgml
Message-ID:  <20020313212214.A91882@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>
In-Reply-To: <xzpbsdsgqiw.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from des@ofug.org on Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 09:29:43PM %2B0100
References:  <200203131806.g2DI6o3b087697@aldan.algebra.com> <xzpbsdsgqiw.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 09:29:43PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> In XML, all elements need a closing tag, unless the element is empty,
> in which case you can use the short form, like <br /> - note that the
> space is required by the specification, though not all XML parsers
> will complain if it's missing.

You sure about that?  Empty elements are 'supposed'[1] to be indicated
as <br/>.  The "<br />" hack is for older HTML parsers that might
encounter XHTML and get confused.

See http://www.ucc.ie/xml/ and search for " />".

N

[1] In quotes because of course it's still valid XML, and when it gets
down to it it's a question of personal preference.
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