• From: John Cowan <cowan@l...>
• To: xml-dev@i...
• Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 10:06:23 -0400 (EDT)

Tim Bray scripsit:

> I'm pretty sure John would agree. -Tim

And so I do.  I must say that I can see no possible reason for
distinguishing, in an enumeration context, among not-present and
null-string.  In a CDATA context, yes, because the zero-length
string is a perfectly legitimate string distinct from logical null.

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