[Pxtl]

> 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]

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