• To: Chris Burdess <dog@b...>
• Subject: Re: Handling of empty content and white space-only content?
• From: toby@c...
• Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 11:42:32 +0100
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <0f58f91bf07350bb735d0e70069026db@b...>
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Chris Burdess writes:
 > toby@c... wrote:
 > > When I say that whitespace is significant, then I'm not referring to
 > > the  whitespace within an element tag:
 > > < foo /> and <foo/> are equivalent.
 > 
 > No. < foo /> is not well-formed.

Didn't know that, but you're right. There may be no space after the '<'
and before the element name. Spaces after the element name are OK though.

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  • Re: Handling of empty content and white space-only content?
    • From: Chris Burdess <dog@b...>

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