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Bug 18155 - 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: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: This bug has no owner yet - up for the taking
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-07-18 17:28 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-08-23 20:52 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2012-07-18 17:28:21 UTC 
This was was cloned from bug 15972 as part of operation convergence.
Originally filed: 2012-02-13 09:37:00 +0000

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 #0   contributor@whatwg.org                          2012-02-13 09:37:23 +0000 
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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
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 #1   Ms2ger                                          2012-05-14 16:43:36 +0000 
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It is ignored silently and a parser error is emitted.
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Comment 1 Ms2ger 2012-08-15 17:13:34 UTC 
Filter on [Idon'tcareaboutHTMLWGbugspam].
Comment 2 Edward O'Connor 2012-08-23 20:52:44 UTC 
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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.").