Thanks for the update.

Some additional info here: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/syntax.html#void-elements

I'm skeptical about the increased casual nature of what makes for an acceptable HTML-serialized HTML5 doc. Seems it just makes it that much harder to write a robust parser and tools. Especially the continued use of empty attribute syntax, which is just nasty. I understand it's to allow plain old HTML docs to be acceptable, but still ...