On Apr 16 2013, at 08:50 , Alan Bateman wrote: > On 16/04/2013 16:13, Jim Gish wrote: >> >> On 04/15/2013 02:02 PM, Martin Buchholz wrote: >>> You are fiddling with the javadoc for getChars, which is an independent >>> change. (I am also fiddling with getChars in another ongoing change). I >>> don't think closing html tags for <li> are required in javadoc. If you are >>> going to change the exception javadoc, then also change @exception to >>> @throws. >>> >> The only reason I'm adding </li> is Alan insisted on it in a previous change >> I proposed :-) >> > I don't recall the full context but I have got confused by an early build of > doclint where this was an issue.
</li> is required by XHTML but not by HTML. doclint was too aggressive about this in early builds. Having </li> does no harm but it's not required. Mike > -Alan.
