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For example, in the case of XML data such as the following:
<foo>bar</foo>
The opening and closing < and > symbols could be called brackets.
However, in the following:
<br />
<data foo="bar" />
<blah a="1" b="2" />
Is there a good name for the closing /> token?
“There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things!” — Phil Karlton
Section 3.1 of the XML specification refers to such tags as “Empty-Element Tags”.
So I would call the
/>part the “empty element terminator”.