From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mo4-p00-ob.smtp.rzone.de (mo4-p00-ob.smtp.rzone.de [81.169.146.221]) by krisdoz.my.domain (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id s8BGh6v3029027 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2014 12:43:10 -0400 (EDT) X-RZG-AUTH: :JiIXek6mfvEEUpFQdo7Fj1/zg48CFjWjQv0cW+St/nW/afgnrylsiWy0bTV+pwAJ X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo00 Received: from britannica.bec.de (ip-109-45-222-219.web.vodafone.de [109.45.222.219]) by smtp.strato.de (RZmta 35.8 DYNA|AUTH) with ESMTPSA id k0675fq8BGh2Le0 (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2014 18:43:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: by britannica.bec.de (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 11 Sep 2014 18:43:02 +0200 Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 18:43:02 +0200 From: Joerg Sonnenberger To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv Subject: Re: -Txhtml produces

tags.. Message-ID: <20140911164302.GB22317@britannica.bec.de> References: <20140911145149.-0ckuONe%sdaoden@yandex.com> <20140911135639.GA16445@britannica.bec.de> <5411B9DB.7070509@bsd.lv> X-Mailinglist: mdocml-discuss Reply-To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5411B9DB.7070509@bsd.lv> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) 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

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 -- To unsubscribe send an email to discuss+unsubscribe@mdocml.bsd.lv