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ooh.  That is interesting.  XF automatically added the close-tag at the end of that post, I was trying to show how it should leave the closing tag off.

I think I do get it now though.  If the initial starting tag doesn't have a close, it would look very weird...as it should, indicating to the user that they screwed something up.

Edit...as I think about this, to does tend to make sense.  I think the fact that other forum engines don't automatically do this is, to an extent, a bug in their software.