From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv
Subject: Re: -Txhtml produces <p/> tags..
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 18:43:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140911164302.GB22317@britannica.bec.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5411B9DB.7070509@bsd.lv>
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 05:03:55PM +0200, Kristaps Dzonsons wrote:
> Care to be more specific? XML says that any elements without
> children may use the minimised form, making <p /> be perfectly valid
> in XHTML strict. However, section C.3 of the XHTML1.0 spec
> specifically mentions, in the interests of HTML compatibility, that
> this should only happen for EMPTY elements. So valid XHTML, but not
> encouraged. However, as I intend to migrate the entire -Thtml and
> -Txhtml to HTML5, which disallows this, the issue will soon be
> moot...
I can't quote the docs at the moment, but if you have been using DOM
manipulation a lot, you know that the empty form tends to result in very
surprising results.
Joerg
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-11 13:51 Steffen Nurpmeso
2014-09-11 13:56 ` Joerg Sonnenberger
2014-09-11 15:03 ` Kristaps Dzonsons
2014-09-11 15:05 ` Kristaps Dzonsons
2014-09-11 16:43 ` Joerg Sonnenberger [this message]
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