On 11/29/06, Henri Sivonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Anyway, as Lachlan already pointed out, whether or not the useless slash should be allowed on elements whose content model is empty is not an issue of technical damage to parsing interoperability but about damage to the mental model of confused authors. So the cost to consider is the cost of the confusion.
Hmm, I've found the explanations most unsatisfactory so far. The tone is dismissive, pedantic, and dogmatic... though I agree with the goals. Perhaps it would be better to prove that the current rules result in easy explanations. What would the text of a bug filed on WordPress look like? Let's assume you actually want them to fix it, not just make a point. -- Robert Sayre "I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time."
