[TYPO3-dev] <base> tag and IE6

[Christian Welzel]

Martin Kutschker schrieb:

> I don't see a 
> rule taht aloes the "expeansion" of an element that is declared EMPTY. 
> "base" is declared empty.

[qoute from http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml-20060816/#sec-starttags]
The representation of an empty element is either a start-tag immediately 
followed by an end-tag, or an empty-element tag.
[/quote]

Both forms are absolutely equal in xhtml/xml.
The short form (empty-element tag) is only a convinience to the older
sgml standard where you were allowed to leave out the optional end tag
in this case.

So adding <base></base> to a website is absolutely xhtml 1.1 valid, only
5 chars longer than the current <base /> and saves float-using-webdevs a
lot of trouble with IE6.

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MfG, Christian Welzel

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