Space Before Closing Slash?

Question

I\'ve frequently seen a space preceding the closing slash in XML and HTML tags. The XHTML line break is probably the canonical example:

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Answer 1

Are those issues still relevant or are we still adding extra spaces for the sake of, say, IE3 compatibility?

You were close - it is for Netscape 4.

It is interesting to see other rationalisations, but that's all it was meant for.