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Closes #1225.

Motivation

A hard line-break renders as <br>, which has no end tag. While Vale walks the HTML, it keeps a history of open tags, and nothing removed <br> from it. Vale then read the list item as still inside an inline element:

• A nested list after the break joined the item above, so a list rule saw one long item.
• Inside emphasis, the stale <br> also blocked </em>, which removes its tag only when that tag is last in the history.

Change

A void tag now leaves the history as soon as it is added, in internal/lint/ast.go.

Verification

• The new scopes case, list-item-with-hard-break, checks a plain hard break and one inside *…*. Each item is counted on its own: 4, 7, 7 and 7 words. For the plain case, this matches 3.24.0, positions included.
• With the fix reverted, each file reports one item of 25 words.
• go test ./... passes on Linux with the grammars built.
• golangci-lint v2.15 reports no issues.
• The commit message passes the commit-msg hook.

Assisted-by: Claude Code

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