data island and empty tags

broman <[email protected]> Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:49:56 -0800 (PST)

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Hi,
I have question about embedded XML data in HTML and difference between
results.
Test code:

<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;
charset=UTF-8">
<script>
function dataisland() {
    var xml = document.getElementById( "xml_site" );
    alert (xml.innerHTML);
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="dataisland();">
<p>page for data island tests</p>
<xml id="xml_site">
<sites path="test" open="1"><site access="true" id="123" ></site></
sites></xml>
<div class="footer">fotter of this page</div>
</body>
</html>

From this code I get:
<sites path="test" open="1"><site access="true" id="123"></site></
sites>
<div class="footer">footer of this page</div>

And I think that this result is incorrect

Bu when I change empty XML tag to
<site access="true" id="123"></site>

I get something that I expect:
<sites path="test" open="1"><site access="true" id="123"></site></
sites>

Is it correct behavior of Firefox? I there any way to get "correct"
result without changing XML empty tags?
Thanks,
Bartek