From: Phrogz <phrogz@...>
Date: 2007-12-25T05:50:03+09:00
Subject: Re: REXML/Amrita2 closing tag

On Dec 24, 2:43 pm, Vasyl Smirnov <vasyl.smir...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've noticed that Amrita2 (which uses REXML), automagically compresses
> empty tags, for example:
>
> <span></span>
>
> becomes just
>
> <span/>
>
> Is there any way to turn this behavior off? It doesn't play well with
> textarea tags, which must always be matched by a full closing tag (</
> textarea>).

It does not appear so:
http://www.germane-software.com/projects/rexml/ticket/19