Re: Whitespace in EMPTY model

James Grimm (james_grimm@credence.com)
Tue, 20 Oct 1998 16:45:41 -0700


Tim Bray wrote:
>
> At 04:07 PM 10/20/98 -0400, Chris Maden wrote:
> >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.
>
> You're right. You can have either <empty/> or <empty></empty> but
> not
> <empty>
> </empty>

In the version of MSXML I have (anyone know how to check the version of
MSXML?), you can only have <empty/>. Would seem to be a bug.

-James