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

[Julian Reschke]

Anne van Kesteren schrieb:
> On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 18:03:33 +0100, Julian Reschke 
> <julian.reschke at gmx.de> wrote:
>>> The fact is that authors already try things like <div/>, <p/> and 
>>> even <a/>.  I've seen all of those examples in the wild.  See, for 
>>> instance, the source of the XML 1.0 spec (and many others) which 
>>> claim to be XHTML as text/html, littered with plenty of <a/> tags all 
>>> throughout.
>>> ...
>>
>> Huh? The thing at <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/>? Don't see that 
>> problem there.
> 
>   <h5><a name="IDANQDS" id="IDANQDS" />Names and Tokens</h5>
> 
> is one example...
> 
> 
>> If this was the case at an earlier point of time, it was probably 
>> caused by a bug in their XSLT code, not the authors writing the spec 
>> (which IMHO uses the W3C's xmlspec XML language).
> 
> In your humble opinion or is it just a fact? :-)

Aha. I thought it was about an "<a />" with no attributes.

So yes, that's a bug in the XSLT code (xmlspec.xsl). I'll forward this 
info to Norman Walsh.

Best regards, Julian