@lunalapin my only objection is that HTML is a superset of XML which doesn't require closing tags. Otherwise it would make perfect sense.
@thufie oh yeah i am apparently just wrong, it's backwards, xml is based on html
@thufie though to be fair unclosed tags is sort of a feature that the standard has waffled on back and forth repeatedly before landing where we are rn
@lunalapin I only know this because as an XML implementer, and someone who wrote some RSS stuff once... Seeing how many web devs don't bother closing their tags really irritates me. My personal webpages leave none unclosed, but I've seen some dirty tricks with pages that didn't even close a single tag...