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CDATA vs. EMPTY

• From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@g...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 00:39:57 +0200

Hi,

   XML 1.0 SE says: "An element with no content is said to be empty".
Does the following fragment have any content?

  <elem><![CDATA[]]></elem>

The Recommendation further reads: "The representation of an empty
element is either a start-tag immediately followed by an end-tag, or an
empty-element tag". This is true for the fragment in it's canonical
representation.
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