XHTML documents badly formed

[email protected] Mon, 12 Jul 2004 03:39:13 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.jakarta.ecs.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I constructed a simple strict XHTML 1.0 document and noticed that elements without end tags like img, link, meta, etc., are badly formed. They need to look like <whatever ... /> but the space-slash is missing.

What am I missing?
Thanks.