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Re: Can an element be sometimes empty?

• From: Danny Vint <dvint@s...>
• To: Michel Rodriguez <mrodrigu@i...>, xml-dev@l...
• Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 15:35:25 -0700

They certainly appear in XSLT templates all the time and the spec tends to
show the use of the empty element notation like you do. Take a look at the
spec there are several samples that use this.

..dan

At 11:09 AM 7/25/2000 -0700, Tim Bray wrote:
>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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