• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• To: Michel Rodriguez <mrodrigu@i...>, xml-dev@l...
• Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 11:09:14 -0700

At 01:12 PM 25/07/00 -0400, Michel Rodriguez wrote:
>I came accross an interesting albeit theoretical problem today: can an
>element in a well-formed XML document be sometimes empty and sometimes
>not?
>
><doc>
>  <weird_element/>
>  <weird_element>with a content </weird_element>
></doc>

Well, the following DTD validates it:

<!ELEMENT doc (weird_element)+>
<!ELEMENT weird_element (#PCDATA)>

But I'm not sure that addresses your question. -T.

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