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[XSL-LIST Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: How to retain the end tag when outputting an empty Play the video Subject: Re: How to retain the end tag when outputting an empty element? From: "Peter Flynn peter@xxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2022 20:03:38 -0000 On 17/06/2022 15:09, Kerry, Richard richard.kerry@xxxxxxxx wrote: Surely <test/> is canonical, and <test></test> isnbt? My understanding is that we agreed they were identical in effect. But several people felt that <test/> meant "this element type is declared as EMPTY, so it can never have an end-tag" whereas <test></test> meant "this element is declared with potential content of some kind, but for whatever reason on this occasion it has none". Certainly in the Humanities (ie TEI) this can be a very important distinction, especially as empty elements would often carry large amounts of metadata in attributes. And I guess the next question would be bwhyb as all XML parsers are (or should be) happy with the single form, shouldnbt they. Yes, absolutely. However, web browsers sometimes fail to grok the difference between (say) <hr/> and <hr></hr> and thus render them differently, so when you output HTML or XHTML, it may make a difference. Peter Current Thread Re: How to retain the end tag when outputting an empty element?, (continued) Michael Kay mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx - 17 Jun 2022 15:57:22 -0000 Bauman, Syd s.bauman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - 17 Jun 2022 17:25:46 -0000 David Carlisle d.p.carlisle@xxxxxxxxx - 17 Jun 2022 18:47:11 -0000 Michael Kay mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx - 17 Jun 2022 21:10:24 -0000 Peter Flynn peter@xxxxxxxxxxx - 18 Jun 2022 20:03:38 -0000 <= Liam R. E. Quin liam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - 19 Jun 2022 00:40:14 -0000 Andrew Sales andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - 19 Jun 2022 10:30:42 -0000 Peter Flynn peter@xxxxxxxxxxx - 19 Jun 2022 14:13:03 -0000 <- Previous Index Next -> Re: How to retain the end tag, Michael Kay mike@xxx Thread Re: How to retain the end tag, Liam R. E. Quin liam Re: How to retain the end tag, Michael Kay mike@xxx Date Re: How to retain the end tag, Liam R. E. Quin liam Month

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