- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 19:57:35 +0200
- To: Charles Reitzel <creitzel@rcn.com>
- Cc: "Howard, Kipp (LNG-CL)" <Kipp.Howard@lexisnexis.com>, html-tidy@w3.org, Björn Höhrmann <bjoern@hoehrmann.de>
* Charles Reitzel wrote: >Of course, you are right. I am just used to Tidy's output, I guess. > >Thanks, I now have a patch that does the trick. > ><?xml version="1.0"?> ><root> > <empty /> > <empty /> ></root> > >It appears to work fine on all of our existing XML test cases. I have >attached them in a zip file so folks can look them over. I'd like to get >some feedback (Björn?) to see if this is what is wanted everywhere. Tidy must not insert white space to already empty elements, hence I am fine with whatever prevents this. Since Tidy tries to normalize the input document, it should have an option how to deal with empty elements in general, i.e., either all are start-end-tags or all elements get an end-tag. Tidy should not output both. This could be empty-elements: start-end-tag | end-tag with start-end-tag beeing the default (docs should note this option is ignored when in HTML/XHTML mode), but if people do not think this is necessary, I can live without and always use start-end-tag notation.
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