Re: [O] [PATCH] export to various flavors of (X)HTML

[Christian Wittern]

On 2013-04-23 21:09, François Pinard wrote:
> If I remember well, self-closing
> tags date back to SGML, not requiring (but also not forbidding) an
> introducing space to the closing slash.  SGML does allow for closing
> tags to be optionally omitted (and for opening tags as well) but such
> optional omissions have to described in the DTD.
Well, in this case you are misremembering, empty elements, aka as 
self-closing tags are one of the innovations of XML; they did not exist in 
SGML (where you could simple omit the closing tag completely for emtpy 
elements).

Just my nit to pick,

Christian

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