[wp-hackers] WP issues

[Charles]

>> Since HTML constructs like "<p></p>" are perfectly valid, HTML  
>> obviously allows the solidus on empty tags.
>
> Can you please cite something?

Sure.

http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwiltgen.net%2Fempty
.html

View source for http://wiltgen.net/empty.html to see the empty tag, solidus
and all.

> [1]: http://www.is-thought.co.uk/book/sgml-9.htm#NET

HTML is not SGML.

-- Charles