- From: Geoffrey M. Clemm <geoffrey.clemm@rational.com>
- Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 15:47:51 -0500 (EST)
- To: jjh@ira.uka.de
- CC: ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org
From: "James J. Hunt" <jjh@allerton.de> The reasons for the concern over tags that are used both as empty tags and as tag pairs (with or without content) were problems with a earlier version of an XML parser that had problems with combining both form and the following quote from the XML specification. I couldn't find any following quote ... did I miss it? For interoperability, the empty-element tag should be used, and should only be used, for elements which are declared EMPTY. I don't remember seeing that in the XML spec. Which section is that from? Additionally, using tags both requires the use of ANY for dead properties. The current XML parser from sun can handle them, so I can live with them. Does that mean that you are OK with a property element being optionally empty? P.S. I have yet to find a good solution for the display of version graphs. I have a few ideas. Could we telephone? This week is pretty packed for me, so email would probably be better (too many meetings :-). Hopefully things will ease up at some point, but it's hard to predict when. Cheers, Geoff
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