Elliotte Harold wrote:
This character has no effect when the document is parsed by an HTML5 parser. However, if the document when parsed by an XML parser, the trailing slash converts the tag into an empty-element tag, and thereby makes an otherwise malformed element well-formed.
If you're trying to parse a HTML5 document with an XML parser you're doing something really screwy anyway.
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