SAX: Short tag's ...
Diez B. Roggisch
deets at nospam.web.de
Mon Oct 5 11:02:21 EDT 2009
Thomas Lehmann wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Is there a way to recognize short tags in a XML?
> I'm implementing a SAX handler...
>
> Problem: storing the XML code I would need this information
> in the startElement ...
>
> How can I handle this?
>
> <element id="abc" />
> <element id="xyz" >any text</element>
I don't think there is a (standard) way, and it shouldn't matter (unless you
are actually talking about HTML, where sadly enough it does).
In XML, <foo></foo> is the exact same thing as <foo/>.
Or do you need to *write* XML with shortened tags?
Diez
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