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

[Lachlan Hunt]

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

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Lachlan Hunt
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