• From: Gilles Marichal <gmaricha@A...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 11:14:36 -0700

Michel Rodriguez <mrodrigu@i...> writes:

 > Expat does not seem to have a problem with it though.

I suppose that
<doc>
   <weird_element/>
   <weird_element>with a content </weird_element>
</doc>
is considered equivalent to
<doc>
   <weird_element></weird_element>
   <weird_element>with a content </weird_element>
</doc>
which is valid well-formed XML.

Note the comment on rule 44:
For interoperability, the empty-element tag must be used, and can only be 
used, for elements which are declared EMPTY.

I assume that a XML processor that enforce the interoperability 
recommendations would flag an error for your example.

-- Gilles

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