in reply to Re^8: Keep quotes around numerical attributes after parsing with HTML::Treebuilder?
in thread Keep quotes around numerical attributes after parsing with HTML::Treebuilder?

You're right: <br/ gets parsed into <br></br>.

However, even under HTML 4.01 strict <br/> gets parsed into <br></br> as well!

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Re^10: Keep quotes around numerical attributes after parsing with HTML::Treebuilder?
by dorward (Curate) on Jul 19, 2005 at 21:26 UTC

    That is becuase <br> is defined as an empty element.

    That isn't my point though, look again:

           breaks in it
       >breaks in it
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