Hi everyone,
I'm wondering what peoples' thoughts are about DOM serialization and
dealing with <p> elements. Currently, XMLC treats the <p> tag specially,
classifying it as a tag that shouldn't have an end tag written for
it.. This seems to have been an arbitrary preference of early developers
of XMLC. I, for one, do not agree with it, although I have an idea why it
was done. Some early browsers rendered <p></p> differently than <p>. As
such, it became common for HTML developers to exclude the </p> in their
markup. Then again, some developers standardized on the more XHTML-like
<p></p> and printing out <p> messes up their formatting. With today's
smarter browsers, all of this should be moot.
So, does anyone have a problem with modifying XMLC to force <p> tags to be
ended with </p>? Obviously, either form is legal HTML4.01, but ending <p>
tags with </p> seems like the more correct thing to do and matches up with
the the next wave of HTML which is XHTML. People really should get used to
this at this point, but I'm asking for opinions here because I don't want
to break everyone's layouts unnecessarily.
Jake
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