Issue with self closing element when the generated svg is embedded in html

[ghost]

When the generated SVG is put into an HTML document and served into a browser, many browsers will autocorrect the markup. They will find tags that are not permitted to use />, and will automatically insert a closing tag.

E.g. becomes when loaded in an HTML page in Google Chrome.

Is it possible to disable the short version and force a verbose output ?

Edit: I'm using the to_string() method of Document to convert into string

[IvanUkhov]

I believe the logic can be seen here. There is no way to configure this at this point.

[crabmusket]

For future reference, here's the correct permalink where the self-closing formatting can be found:

svg/src/node/element/mod.rs

Line 68 in a391bb2

return write!(formatter, "/>");

[IvanUkhov]

Thank you for the correction. Right, one would have to distinguish two cases there: permitted to close without a closing tag or not, depending on the element. To this end, perhaps Element should be extended with some flags to communicate more about how each element behaves.

[IvanUkhov]

Can anybody please provide a link to the spec that shows that certain tags are not permitted to be self-closing? If the current behavior is in accordance with the specification, nothing has to be changed.

[IvanUkhov]

I leave this one as a reference and close this issue:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24299969/closing-svg-tags-explicit-or-self-closing

Please shout if there is a contradicting and more reliable reference.