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Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: > > >From the XML spec, section 3.1: > > "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." > > ...Is there any way out of this conundrum? Yes. Note what the standard means by "for interoperability". It's not a mandatory constraint. So you can use <tag/> in place of <tag></tag> for elements that aren't declared EMPTY. But a good validator will at least issue a warning when it sees <tag/>. Typically this warning can (and should) be ignored. -- Richard Goerwitz PGP key fingerprint: C1 3E F4 23 7C 33 51 8D 3B 88 53 57 56 0D 38 A0 For more info (mail, phone, fax no.): finger richard@g... 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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