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From: Peter Murray-Rust <peter@u...> David G. Durand wrote: > > Please, please, please, allow me a way to find out if an element was > "empty". (i.e. written <e/>). I use this information when I write DTDs, and > intend to continue doing so. I also know, from the long discussions in the > XML-SIG that I am not alone in using this syntax to represent a distinction > that I want preserved and detectable by applications. > Whatever the desirability of this - and I'm neutral - my understanding is that currently the spec makes no distinction between <e></e> and </e>. IOW documents differ only in the byte stream and not in the result of parsing. An analogy is that Lord's and Lord's are completely equivalent. I therefore think it would be incorrect and misleading for SAX to implement this - sorry. Since the spec. explicitly allows this (though under the IMO misleading name of a "for compatibility" feature) it can't be "incorrect and misleading" for SAX to implement it. It also means that SAX is not _required_ to implement it, but then, my plea wasn't phrased in those terms. The fact that this is an implementor option does not remove my need to have the information available. Since this is instance-only information, I see no reason that SAX can't easily provide it. In fact, I proposed a simple way to support it that doesn't prevent other applications from ignoring the distinction. -- David ------------------------------------------+---------------------------- David Durand dgd@c...| david@d... Boston University Computer Science | Dynamic Diagrams http://www.cs.bu.edu/students/grads/dgd/ | http://dynamicDiagrams.com/ | MAPA: mapping for the WWW 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/ 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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