Re: XMLC, setEnableXTHMLCompatibilty

Justin Akehurst <[email protected]> Tue, 07 Oct 2003 09:15:15 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.enhydra.xmlc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
At 08:28 AM 10/7/2003, you wrote:
>On Monday 06 October 2003 19:14, Jacob Kjome wrote:
>
>> Hmm....  examples please?  I hope you don't mean <br></br> and the
>> like.  That is just plain invalid.  And I'm guessing you mean it won't work
>> with IE but Mozilla works just fine in almost every case.  Please provide
>> markup (in an html document attached in a zip file so it isn't inlined in
>> the email) which doesn't work for you and explain what exactly about it
>> doesn't work.
>
>No, not so much for br, though it seems that they handle closing tags for 
>INPUT, IMG, etc just fine.  (Not that I want to force those, but all the 
>things that CAN have close tags seem to need them)
>
>But what I see happening, is that when I generate XHTML like this:
>
>--snip--
><div>
>        Title
>        <div class="foo" />
>        More content
></div>
>Final Content
>--end--
>
>--snip--
>I get very different results than when I generate
>
><div>
>        Title
>        <div class="foo" ></div>
>        More content
></div>
>--end--
>
>Essentially, the browser is ignoring the implcit end of the second div.

Here's a relevant page from WC3 about this.

http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#C_3

-Justin