html a tag should not be self-closed

[banjun]

Using QuoteIt plugin for url https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4388504/empty.html ( http://quoteit.herokuapp.com/clip.html?u=https%3A%2F%2Fdl.dropboxusercontent.com%2Fu%2F4388504%2Fempty.html ) generates html containing below, but AsakusaSatellite converts it to <a ... /> self-closing tag.
Because browsers interpret <a /> self-closing tag as <a> (not <a></a>), the scope of the a tag is unintentionally exntended to the following html elements.

<a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4388504/empty.html" target="_blank"></a>

^ contents of a tag is empty

[mzp]

Oh..., you might touch a dark side of XHTML