RE: how to close html tags : link, meta,...

At 12:06 PM 8/13/2003, you wrote:
> What a good idea (or hack, if this is what you meant) - I've never
> considered it, I don't know why...
>
> <div>
>   <dummy/>
> </div>
>
> Will stop the element being minimised, won't leave spaces all over your
> output and won't incur any processing expense.
Way back at the beginning of this thread, yesterday, I suggested the usual 
workaround is to put a comment or dummy PI in there ... oh well.
> Although, I still think we should have the option when output="xml" to
> choose how empty elements are handled, this will do until output="xhtml"
> comes along.
Like others, I find myself resisting the idea of extensions that allow us 
to make a difference where there should be none, just because of a broken 
processor. If the extension is local to a particular processor, it's merely 
confusing. If the extension is mandated by the spec, it muddies everything 
for all time just to deal with a problem of the moment. ("Don't fix IE, 
change every XSLT engine instead.") As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
Cheers,
Wendell


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