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

[Robin Berjon <robin@knowscape.com>]

At 11:33 29/03/2001 -0500, Mike.Champion@SoftwareAG-USA.com 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.