[whatwg] text/html flavor conformance checkers and <foo />

Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi
Mon Apr 25 12:46:45 PDT 2005


What should text/html flavor conformance checkers say about <foo />?

Silently treat as <foo>> as per SGML?
Silently treat as <foo> as per real world?
Report a warning?
Report an error?

What about <foo/>?

I am leaning towards reporting an error.

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Henri Sivonen
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