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Re: empty xml element spanning multiple lines

From: Hermann Peifer <peifer@---.-->
To: NULL
Date: 3/27/2009 12:05:00 PM
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen wrote:
> 
> [Pedantry alert].  Well, 'only' may be a bit strong.
> There are also forms like <element
>> </element> and <element
> 
> 
> 
> 
> /> -- unlikely to matter to the OP or the data source, 
> but not to be overlooked by a parser.
> 

From the OP's type of question, I concluded that he would perhaps not be too much interested in these details.

Just to add yet another variant: one could also use <element/> if one wants to save (rather than add) some whitespace.

Hermann


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