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Re: empty xml element spanning multiple lines

From: Hermann Peifer <peifer@---.-->
To: NULL
Date: 3/23/2009 10:52:00 AM

Mark wrote:
> I've working on processing xml from an external source (who I can 
> contact to change things if they turn out to be incorrect) and in their 
> xml documents empty elements span multiple lines e.g.
> 
> <element>
> </element>
> 
> rather than <element /> or <element></element>. When I'm parsing the xml 
> the text of the element is '\n' which is what I would expect, but not 
> what they intend - it should be null or an empty string or whatever. Is 
> what they're doing wrong in expressing an empty element, or is it simply 
> ugly (but not wrong)?
> 
> TIA

As you noticed: the "empty" elements are obviously not empty. If the data provider's intention was to provide a true empty element, then the only options are <element /> or <element></element>, anything else would be wrong.

Hermann

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