SV: SV: SV: empty elements and xsd:string

>Are you suggesting that the empty string is not a string, or rather
>that it should not have been a member of xs:string?  I think that
>would violate many more expectations than including it, as the REC
>does.
I was saying that my expectation was that an empty element did not have any
content, string or otherwise

>Or are you suggesting that the Infoset is wrong in failing to
>distinguish the second and third 'hi' elements above?
no, because they are according to the xml spec the same. they are empty.