[XML-SIG] How to get 4DOM to output empty <elements />

Norman Walsh Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>
09 May 2000 06:37:07 -0400


/ Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee> was heard to say:
| > Perfectly legit. In XML, there is no distinction between
| > <tag></tag> and <tag/>.
| 
| He said XHTML not XML, a standard supposed to be bacwards compatible.

I understand that, but it's also supposed to be XML. The most emphatic
thing that the XHTML spec could say is that one form or the other is
preferred. XHTML has to obey the rules of XML.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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