[whatwg] Allow trailing slash in always-empty HTML5 elements?

[Mike Schinkel]

Lachlan Hunt wrote:
>> Mike Schinkel wrote:
>> > 1.) I read the FAQ http://blog.whatwg.org/faq/ and it seemed to imply 
>> > that HTML 5 and XHTML where not at odds with each other?  Did I 
>> > misread that, because from comments on this thread I get the 
>> > impression that might not be the case.
>> > 
>> > 2.) A similar question, but is the goal for HTML5 and XHTML to slowly 
>> > converge, or is the goal for them to diverage?
>> 
>> This issue was explained in detail in this recent blog entry.
>> 
>> http://blog.whatwg.org/html-vs-xhtml
>> 

Thanks for the reference. I'll check it out.

-Mike Schinkel
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