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   Re: [xml-dev] Handling of empty content and white space-only content?

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Chris Burdess writes:
 > toby@cinetop.at wrote:
 > > When I say that whitespace is significant, then I'm not referring to
 > > the  whitespace within an element tag:
 > > < foo /> and <foo/> are equivalent.
 > 
 > No. < foo /> is not well-formed.

Didn't know that, but you're right. There may be no space after the '<'
and before the element name. Spaces after the element name are OK though.




 

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