Re: [whatwg] self-closing tags in html5

2010-12-31 Thread William F Hammond
Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch writes: On Sat, 25 Sep 2010, William F Hammond wrote: In the spec at 8.1.2.1 (6) (for the text/html serialization): The section number refers to the W3C version at http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/ Then, if the element is one of the void elements

Re: [whatwg] self-closing tags in html5

2010-09-27 Thread William F Hammond
Bjoern Hoehrmann derhoe...@gmx.net writes: * William F Hammond wrote: Does anyone seriously think that foo/ is an ordinary open tag? They do if it's like in `a href=http://example.org/`. Well, the spec (w3 version) has detailed parsing rules for text/html in section 8.2. I _think_ those

[whatwg] self-closing tags in html5

2010-09-26 Thread William F Hammond
-- William F. Hammond Dept. of Mathematics Statistics hamm...@albany.eduThe University at Albany http://www.albany.edu/~hammond/Albany, NY (U.S.A

Re: [whatwg] self-closing tags in html5

2010-09-26 Thread William F Hammond
/pers/hammond/Test/leaptag.html Html5 DOM building from text/html will be hard enough without the syntactical schizophrenia of 8.1.2.1 (6). -- Bill -- William F. Hammond Dept