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> From: Elliotte Rusty Harold > "Empty-element tags may be used for any element which has no content, > whether or not it is declared using the keyword EMPTY. For > interoperability, the empty-element tag must be used, and can only be > used, for elements which are declared EMPTY." > > 1. The "can only be used" part of the second sentence seems to > contradict the the first sentence. > > 2. "the empty-element tag must be used...for elements which > are declared EMPTY" seems to contradict the assertiona that <NAME></NAME> > and <NAME/> are the same thing. > > Is there any way out of this conundrum? > Yes. Section 1.2, terminology, says that all sentences beginning with "For interoperability" can be safely ignored unless you are interested in getting your document through a piece of software that wasn't written to process XML. Mike Kay xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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