I don't believe that /> is needed anymore. You can just use >
I unfortunately work with coldfusion/cmfl on a daily basis at my company. I am moving the servers over to Lucee from Coldfusion 10 and trying to have any new systems built on C#/.net. The most difficult part is getting other people on board. My manager is fine with what I am doing. He saids he is too old to learn a new language so myself and the other programmer will have to support anything I built in .net
Let me tell you folks. Writing spaghetti code with no separation of concerns and no version control is not exclusive to php