alt Hacker News> XML has self-closing tag syntax but it wasn't always handled well by browsers.
So we'll add another syntax for browsers to handle.
> XML has self-closing tag syntax but it wasn't always handled well by browsers.
So we'll add another syntax for browsers to handle.
I was going to respond that HTML was the original syntax and XML the usurper, but a comment in another thread casts some doubt on that version of events: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46576844