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The trailing slash issue should be inexistent. Today many sites use this trailing slash in HTML pages. Even if those pages do not validate today, I consider they should validate, as long as they validate without the trailing slashes.
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I don't think that page claiming to be authored as HTML4.01 should validate if it contains <br />, etc. which, at least in theory, has entirely different meaning. Another point, maybe a bit off-topic: http://annevankesteren.nl/2005/11-kurafire ;) Regards, Rimantas -- http://rimantas.com/