François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> Christian Wittern <cwittern@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On 2013-04-23 21:09, François Pinard wrote:
>
>>> If I remember well [...]
>
>> Well, in this case you are misremembering, empty elements, aka as
>> self-closing tags are one of the innovations of XML.  Just my nit to pick,
>
> A friendly nit-picking is always a good way to get one another to
> improve.  Thanks!

Who knew this would turn out to be such a fraught issue! All I wanted
was that little green checkmark from the W3C...

Here's what I think should be an acceptable final patch. I dropped the
CDATA mess, and came up with a slightly different implementation for
handling self-closing tags. It's maybe a little /bulkier/ than the
previous implementation, but not so hacky, and may continue to be useful
in the future. There's also a documentation patch.

Hope this works,
E