Subject: [xsl] Understanding why <tag></tag> is the way it is (was Re: [xsl] IE Client side transformation issue) From: "M. David Peterson" <m.david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 19:22:14 -0600 |
On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 19:14:32 -0600, Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
About the spec thing, isn't it something from SGML heritage? I mean, didn't XML introduce the shortcut <br /> for <br></br> thus disallowing the SGML <br> on itself (without closing tag)? And wasn't it also SGML heritage that allowed <option selected> and XML forced more strict rules and made it <option selected="selected">?
Oh, that's definitely a question for Tommie or someone else with similar SGML background like G. Ken Holman, Dr. Kay, or David Carlisle.
And we're still struggling to get rid of our past
NOTE: While this may seem off-topic for XSL-List, I would argue that based on the various problems associated with the rendering of HTML via an XSLT transform and <tag></tag> and <tag/> this is really and important topic closely related to XSLT from several different perspectives.
-- /M:D
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