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Thanks for the correction. The documentation on the website should be updated shortly. -- PITHY WORDS OF WISDOM In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dare Obasanjo [mailto:dareo@m...] > Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 11:35 AM > To: Elliotte Rusty Harold; xml-dev@l... > > > I notice on http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/ that you wrongly claim > > "XML Diff performs partially XML-based comparison of the XML > documents as opposite of a common lexical comparison. For > instance, it ignores the document encoding and the order of > attributes. However, it does distinguish between empty > element tags and empty elements with two tags. > This is a bug." > > This is incorrect. Please correct it. > > > -- > PITHY WORDS OF WISDOM > In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. > > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and > confers no rights. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Elliotte Rusty Harold [mailto:elharo@m...] > Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 6:25 AM > To: xml-dev@l... > > At 4:19 PM -0700 8/30/02, Dare Obasanjo wrote: > >Microsoft XML Diff and Patch 1.0 is now released. > > > > According to the documentation this tool "does differentiate > between an empty element <a/> and element with no content > <a></a>" This is clearly wrong. <a/> vs. <a></a> is just > syntax sugar. There is no significant difference between > them, and tools should not pretend there is. An empty element > is an element with no content and vice versa. > > This is a common misconception among developers and Microsoft > should not be encouraging it. > -- > > +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ > | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@m... | Writer/Programmer | > +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ > | XML in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition (O'Reilly, 2002) | > | http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian2/ | > | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0596002920/cafeaulaitA/ | > +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ > | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | > | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.cafeconleche.org/ | > +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org > <http://www.xml.org>, an initiative of OASIS > <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl> > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org > <http://www.xml.org>, an initiative of OASIS > <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl> > >
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