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Bug 15972 - 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
Summary: On step 6, it says that the single U+002F SOLIDUS xharacter (/) me be present...
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-02-13 09:37 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-07-27 05:51 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-02-13 09:37:23 UTC 
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
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Comment 1 Ms2ger 2012-05-14 16:43:36 UTC 
It is ignored silently and a parser error is emitted.
Comment 2 contributor 2012-07-18 17:28:24 UTC 
This bug was cloned to create bug 18155 as part of operation convergence.
Comment 3 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-07-27 05:51:10 UTC 
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.").