Whitespace in EMPTY model

James Grimm james_grimm at credence.com
Wed Oct 21 01:46:44 BST 1998


Tim Bray wrote:
> 
> At 04:07 PM 10/20/98 -0400, Chris Maden wrote:
> >I was ready to reply that an EMPTY element must have nothing between
> >the start- and end-tags, but that's not immediately clear upon reading
> >the spec.
> 
> You're right.  You can have either <empty/> or <empty></empty> but
> not
> <empty>
> </empty>

In the version of MSXML I have (anyone know how to check the version of
MSXML?), you can only have <empty/>.  Would seem to be a bug.

-James

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