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- From: "Richard L. Goerwitz" <richard@goon.stg.brown.edu>
- To: xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
- Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 18:40:13 +0000
Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
>
> >From the XML spec, section 3.1:
>
> "Empty-element tags may be used for any element which has no content,
> whether or not it is declared using the keyword EMPTY. For
> interoperability, the empty-element tag must be used, and can only be
> used, for elements which are declared EMPTY."
>
> ...Is there any way out of this conundrum?
Yes. Note what the standard means by "for interoperability". It's not
a mandatory constraint. So you can use <tag/> in place of <tag></tag>
for elements that aren't declared EMPTY. But a good validator will at
least issue a warning when it sees <tag/>. Typically this warning can
(and should) be ignored.
--
Richard Goerwitz
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