262114 - When saving a W3C Validated XHTML Page Mozilla does not keep the page Valid

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 205264

(Core :: DOM: Serializers, defect)

Description

[Stephen Hind]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: 

Mozilla always strips the forward-slash at the end of a self-closing tagan
example follows (http://www.cumbria-apprenticeships.co.uk/ used as example site):

Original source code (as seen in "View Page Source")
<meta name="DC.title" content="Cumbria Prospectus" />

Saved source code (open saved file and "View Page Source")
<meta name="DC.title" content="Cumbria Prospectus">

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Save any W3C Validated XHTML page
2. Open saved page
3. Try to validate (http://validator.w3.org/) = no longer valid XHTML

Actual Results:  
The problem occurs

Expected Results:  
The saved page should have validated the same as the original.

It makes no difference if you have "Retain Original Formatting" option set

Comment 1

[Neil Deakin]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 205264 ***