18155 2012-07-18 17:28:21 +0000 On step 6, it says that the single U+002F SOLIDUS xharacter (/) me be present in void and foreign element. It says on to behave then, but I didn't found any specification on how to behave if it is found on other elements. Should it be ignored or generate 2012-08-23 20:52:44 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG HTML5 spec unspecified Other other RESOLVED WORKSFORME http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#start-tags P3 normal --- 1 contributor dave.null alexandre.morgaut eoconnor mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 70776 0 contributor 2012-07-18 17:28:21 +0000 This was was cloned from bug 15972 as part of operation convergence. Originally filed: 2012-02-13 09:37:00 +0000 ================================================================================ #0 contributor@whatwg.org 2012-02-13 09:37:23 +0000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/syntax.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#start-tags Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#start-tags Comment: On step 6, it says that the single U+002F SOLIDUS xharacter (/) me be present in void and foreign element. It says on to behave then, but I didn't found any specification on how to behave if it is found on other elements. Should it be ignored or generate a parse error? I often see code like "<td />" or "<script (...) />. Posted from: 31.35.10.21 by alexandre.morgaut@4d.com User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_8) AppleWebKit/534.52.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1.2 Safari/534.52.7 ================================================================================ #1 Ms2ger 2012-05-14 16:43:36 +0000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It is ignored silently and a parser error is emitted. ================================================================================ 72233 1 Ms2ger 2012-08-15 17:13:34 +0000 Filter on [Idon'tcareaboutHTMLWGbugspam]. 72640 2 eoconnor 2012-08-23 20:52:44 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the Editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the Tracker Issue; or you may create a Tracker Issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Rejected Change Description: No change. Rationale: The spec seems to be clear about this ("When a start tag token is emitted with its self-closing flag set, if the flag is not acknowledged when it is processed by the tree construction stage, that is a parse error.").