Re: Empty elements

• From: Paul Prescod <papresco@technologist.com>
• Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 10:53:02 -0500
• To: "'www-dom@w3.org'" <www-dom@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <347AF45E.4B8F6917@technologist.com>

Stephane Bidoul wrote:
> 
> Just 2 small comments on the DOM Level 1 document as of 9th of October draft.
> 1. It could be useful (if not necessary?) to have some kind of "mustOmitEndTag" attribute for the Element interface,
> so that an exact re-creation of the source document could be done
> without access to the DocumentType.

In XML, any element can have an end-tag, (including empty elements) so
mustOmitEndTag would always be false.

 Paul Prescod

Received on Tuesday, 25 November 1997 10:49:44 UTC