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• Subject: Re: Microsoft XML Diff and Patch 1.0 available
• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 09:25:18 -0400
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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.
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