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Bug 10061 - rt and rp elements end tags should not be allowed to be omitted
Summary: rt and rp elements end tags should not be allowed to be omitted
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
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Reported: 2010-07-01 18:24 UTC by Rouven We
Modified: 2010-10-04 14:48 UTC (History)
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Description Rouven We 2010-07-01 18:24:28 UTC 
Section 8.2.1.3 Optional tags currently contains the folllowing:

An rt element's end tag may be omitted if the rt element is immediately followed by an rt or rp element, or if there is no more content in the parent element.

An rp element's end tag may be omitted if the rp element is immediately followed by an rt or rp element, or if there is no more content in the parent element.

I propose to remove this from the spec.

Reason:
The general arguments against optional end tag are valid (more exceptions, thus harder learn, additional work when migrating to XHTML)
However in case of the rt und rp elements they have never been in a HTML specification, thus there are no backward compatibility issues.
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-08-28 04:52:35 UTC 
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:
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: I disagree that omittable end tags are bad. They can make writing markup far less verbose, and are completely unambiguous. Nobody is forcing anyone to omit them.
Comment 2 Rouven We 2010-08-28 11:00:13 UTC 
I don't fully agree but I accept your response.