RE: [xml-dev] [OT] Re: [xml-dev] Lessons learned from the XMLexperiment

[David Lee <dlee@calldei.com>]

> From: Michael Kay [mailto:mike@saxonica.com] 
> Indeed, I've never found a use case for xsi:nil.

I stumbled on one ... 
In an <unnamed> XML to JSON conversion implementation, if you have an empty XML element with xsi:nil 
it will be translated to a JSON null  making the distinction between "" and null possible and reliable.
Sometimes that's a useful thing to the reader of the JSON.

-David

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