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  • From: Ed Davies <edavies AT nildram.co.uk>
  • To: xom-interest <xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [XOM-interest] <receive/> vs. <receive />
  • Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 16:10:30 +0000

Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
I experimented with taking out the extra space. It broke a lot of unit tests that depend on the space. Not in an essential way, of course. I could just revise those several dozen unit tests as well. However, I do wonder if other peoples' test suites might also now be depending on this appearance. I'm thus inclined to leave the space in and accept the minor inconsistency; at least through 1.1; unless there's a massive hue and cry to take it out. :-)


Not exactly a hue and cry, but if you're going to make a change I'd vote
for adding a space where it is currently omitted. XHTML 1.0 recommends
them:

http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#C_2

C.2. Empty Elements

Include a space before the trailing / and > of empty elements, e.g. <br />, <hr /> and <img src="karen.jpg" alt="Karen" />.

Ed Davies





  • [XOM-interest] <receive/> vs. <receive />, Ed Davies, 12/26/2005

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