On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 04:21:21PM +0530, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 09 Jul 2009, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
> >
> > <br />
> > <hr class="endfloat" />
> > <br class="newline" />
>
> Could you please clarify why these are XML which is not acceptable
> HTML?
The /> at the end means different things in XML and SGML. In XML, <br />
is just an empty tag. In SGML (which HTML is), it is actually a
shorthand called the null-end-tag, which behaves quite differently. Now,
there aren't many browsers that implement NET correctly (most just
ignore the /), but it still gets quite annoying when you run the page
through the validator.
Technically, if I remember correctly, this:
<br />Hello, world / goodbye world
means:
<br>>Hello world </br> goodbye world
which is rather nonsensical...
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