Re: Whitespace in EMPTY model

Chris Maden (crism@oreilly.com)
Tue, 20 Oct 1998 16:07:24 -0400 (EDT)

[Dean Roddey]
> If the model is EMPTY, what happens to the whitespace between that
> element's begin/end tags? Is that defined anywhere? Should it always
> just be skipped? What if the element has the XML whitespace
> attribute or the parser was told to maintain ignorable whitespace?

That's a good question.

I was ready to reply that an EMPTY element must have nothing between
the start- and end-tags, but that's not immediately clear upon reading
the spec.

Validity Constraint: Element Valid

An element is valid if there is a declaration matching elementdecl
where the Name matches the element type, and one of the following
holds:
1. The declaration matches EMPTY and the element has no content.

but it's not clear whether "no content" prohibits ignorable
whitespace.

-Chris

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