Re: [Lynx-dev] Self closing tags.

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 30 Sep 2011, Zephaniah E. Loss-Cutler-Hull wrote:

> I am starting to see a fair number of things (such as ebooks), which do
> things with tags like: <a id="foo" />, this of course ends up with the
> rest of the document being hi-lighted as a link.
>
> And it's not just the a tag.
>
> So, I'm wondering how hard it would be to get lynx to parse that in the
> general case as an open and a close, at least for xhtml documents and
> possibly as an option in general.

It attempts to do this - with the caveat that that it's not the default.
Look at the XHTML_PARSING setting in lynx.cfg and/or the -xhtml-parsing
command-line switch.  I added those in 2.8.7dev.11 (2008-12-24).

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