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At 04:07 PM 10/20/98 -0400, Chris Maden wrote: >I was ready to reply that an EMPTY element must have nothing between >the start- and end-tags, but that's not immediately clear upon reading >the spec. You're right. You can have either <empty/> or <empty></empty> but not <empty> </empty> > 1. The declaration matches EMPTY and the element has no content. > >but it's not clear whether "no content" prohibits ignorable >whitespace. I think if you follow the definition chain it falls out. Content includes text, and text is made of characters. There is NO SUCH THING as ignorable whitespace in XML; the closest thing is WS between elements where you have a declared element (i.e. non-mixed) content. And that is not labeled "ignorable" or anything like it. -Tim 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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