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		Pxtl 50 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You are not required to close your <p>, <li>, <img... > 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. https://xkcd.com/927/

kbolino 50 days ago | [–]

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

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