[TYPO3-dev] <base> tag and IE6

[Dmitry Dulepov [typo3]]

Christian Welzel wrote:
> [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.

Answer here: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#C_2

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