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by jeffcoat 5361 days ago
The XML spec refers to them as "empty-element" tags.

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-starttags
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Ives 5361 days ago
Oh ofcourse, I thought evincarofautumn meant the SGML/HTML thing where you don't need to close certain tags.
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