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Asked: 2026-05-15T13:58:54+00:00

I started working on an experimental project tonight. I’ve realized that I need to

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I started working on an experimental project tonight. I’ve realized that I need to determine if a group of selected nodes are self closing or not.

For example, suppose I query the dom and get this collection of nodes:

<br/><br/><p></p><div></div></br/>

Is there a property on the elements that can determine which are which?

Moreover, rather than filter on specific html elements (oh, if this were the only limitations), suppose that I am parsing an XML document that can contain arbitrarily named tags.

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  1. Editorial Team

    XML does not differentiate self closing tags from empty tags, so <p /> and <p></p> are identical, as far as XML is concerned.

    Some XML parsers will parse all such structures to be <p /> some will parse them all to <p></p> and some will just leave them as they are.

    I would say there is no foolproof way to do this – you will have to specifically test on your browser of choice, see what exactly is returned and if you can work with that (searching for /> for example).

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