I wouldn't write a literal result element such as <br /> as <br></br>,
so if the serialiser left that as <br /> all would be well.
But the serialise wouldn't know how you'd written it as it wouldn't have
been reported by the parser.
I guess it all comes down to if the serialiser can distinguish between
<foo/> and <foo></foo>.
It can't as the serialiser is using the result of an XML parse, and an
XML parser is required to not distinguish these.
David
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