Completely a personal preference thing. Some of us are just more comfortable keeping to a single style of coding. Thus we don't have to always be thinking; "This line is CFML it does not need a closing '/'...This line is XHTML, it needs a closing '/'".
Personally it limits the times I make XHTML mistakes by forgetting to properly close a tag if I always close all tags whether XHTML or CFML. Except the rare times this can cause an CFML error. But the only example I can think of is with Custom Tags, and I write my custom tags to not behave differently with "<cf_myTag>" and "<cf_myTag/>". ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade to ColdFusion 8 and integrate with Adobe Flex http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:288313 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
