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I just talked to the dev responsible for the tool and confirmed that this is indeed a typo in the overview documentation on the web page. The documentation will be corrected shortly. -- PITHY WORDS OF WISDOM In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. -----Original Message----- From: Aaron Skonnard [mailto:aarons@d...] Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 6:48 AM To: xml-dev@l... Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: > At 4:19 PM -0700 8/30/02, Dare Obasanjo wrote: > >Microsoft XML Diff and Patch 1.0 is now released. > > According to the documentation this tool "does differentiate between > an empty element <a/> and element with no content <a></a>" > This is clearly wrong. <a/> vs. <a></a> is just syntax sugar. > There is no significant difference between them, and tools should not > pretend there is. An empty element is an element with no content and > vice versa. > > This is a common misconception among developers and Microsoft should > not be encouraging it. This seems to just be a typo. It should read "does not differentitate...". I just tested it. ................................................... Aaron Skonnard, DevelopMentor (http://skonnard.com) Essential XML Quick Reference now available online! http://www.develop.com/books .................................................. ----------------------------------------------------------------- The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl>
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