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RE: attribute order (RE: Syntax Sugar and XML information models)

• From: Robin Berjon <robin@k...>
• To: Mike.Champion@S...
• Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 18:44:18 +0200

At 11:33 29/03/2001 -0500, Mike.Champion@S... wrote: 
>I just remembered one other thing that the InfoSet doesn't model that has
>generated some discussion about round-trippability --- the two legal XML 
>syntaxes for empty elements.  Does anyone care about round-tripping the
>specific syntax used in some instance, e.g. <empty></empty> vs 
><empty/> ?

I've heard quite a few people working with XHTML complain about that.
Changing from <br /> to <br></br> isn't so good, and people are unhappy
about tools that don't pay enough attention to such details.

-- robin b.
I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it. 

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