• From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@e...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 16:12:14 -0500

> instance, e.g. <empty></empty> vs <empty/> ?  There 
> was some discussion on SML-DEV once about using it 
> to encode the distinction between an element with 
> the value [empty string] vs an element with the 
> value "null"  

The XML WG/IG also had that debate... myself and a few
other wanted to maintain the distinction. We lost ;-)

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