Yet another validity question

[John Cowan]

Liam R. E. Quin wrote:

> One reason it is there is to allow "elephants", but exclusions were
> later removed from XML:
>     <!ELEMENT HOLDER - O (ELEPHANT*) -ELEPHANT>
> in which HOLDER must now be empty but can have a missing end tag.

I suppose you mean "can have an explicit end tag", no?  After all,
ordinary EMPTY elements don't have end tags.
 
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