RE: [xml-dev] Microsoft XML Diff and Patch 1.0 available

["Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@microsoft.com>]

Thanks for the correction. 

The documentation on the website should be updated shortly. 

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dare Obasanjo [mailto:dareo@microsoft.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 11:35 AM
> To: Elliotte Rusty Harold; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
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> 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. 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elliotte Rusty Harold [mailto:elharo@metalab.unc.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 6:25 AM
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
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> 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.
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