On 18 December 2010 15:54, David Carlisle <> wrote:
> On 18/12/2010 14:22, Kurt Cagle wrote:
>>
>> So you end up with problematic elements such as <br/>, which in XML is
>> interpreted as an empty element named "br" with no children, being
>> interpreted in HTML5 as <br></br> as an element with an associated text
>> node, albeit one with a string-length of 0?
>
> no html5 parses <br/> exactly as if the input had been <br>.
> In either case it parses to make a void element with no child nodes.
Does the problem of an empty element with a style that causes
everything which follows it to have that style been solved?
For example currently with
foo<div style="font-weigh:bold"/>bar
the empty div causes "bar" to be bold.
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