RE: [xml] Bug Issue?

["Stefan Willmert" <stefanw intellanet com>]

I understand the equivalancy. So in the case of the

<textarea name="name" rows="5" cols="50"/>

tag, internet explorer fills the textarea with the html data following this
tag. In order to
create an empty textarea, internet explorer needs

<textarea name="name" rows="5" cols="50"></textarea>

Would you consider this a browser incompatability?

Forgive me for my lack of understanding regarding XML specifications.

-stefan willmert

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Veillard [mailto:veillard redhat com]
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 11:03 AM
To: Stefan Willmert
Cc: xml gnome org
Subject: Re: [xml] Bug Issue?


On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 10:54:20AM -0500, Stefan Willmert wrote:
> I've noticed similar issues, such as a pocket pc browser requiring <br> or
> <br></br> but not <br/>. If the xml/xslt processor is replacing empty tags
> with singularly closed tags, i would call this a bug.

  No, from the XML specifications, XML Infoset, and XPath data model,
<br></br> and <br/> are *stricly equivalent*. The only specification
where there is some kind of discussion about this is the XHTML1
specification
it's a non-normative appendix, and based only on the support of XHTML1
for older SGML-HTML based browsers. It is definitely not a bug.
  If you have troubles with <br></br> vs. <br/> then that mean that
it's an XHTML1 processing chain and one of the software layer is simply
not XML conformant. Make sure you use the appropriate XHTML1 doctype
in your document and recent libxml2 versions will serialize the XML
with the baroque recipes required to try to avoid breaking those non-XML
tools when fed with XML.

Daniel

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