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Bug 3957 - Minimized Tag Syntax error
Summary: Minimized Tag Syntax error
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Validator
Classification: Unclassified
Component: check (show other bugs)
Version: 0.7.3
Hardware: Macintosh All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Olivier Thereaux
QA Contact: qa-dev tracking
URL: http://validator.w3.org/
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Reported: 2006-11-07 17:29 UTC by Eric Puidokas
Modified: 2006-11-08 05:51 UTC (History)
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Description Eric Puidokas 2006-11-07 17:29:42 UTC 
Minimized tag syntax is not allowed in XHTML on elements whose content model is empty. Example: <p /> should not be considered valid.

Link to documentation on this:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#C_3
Comment 1 Olivier Thereaux 2006-11-08 05:51:46 UTC 
Hello Eric,

The Appendix C guidelines for XHTML 1.0 are best practices from an informative section of the specification, and are not directly related to validation. As such, they are not necessary to check in the validator.

We have a specific checker for appendix C (prototype at [1]), which will eventually be integrated within the "unicorn" framework (prototype at [2]).

[1] http://qa-dev.w3.org/appc/
[2] http://qa-dev.w3.org/unicorn/