- From: Dave Peterson <davep@acm.org>
- Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 23:37:32 -0400
- To: xml-editor@w3.org
>[Definition: [E97]An element with no content is said to be empty.] Does "no content" mean the element's content is an empty string, or that the element's content does not exist? E.g., In the first interpretation it is true that an empty element's content contains no character data; in the second it is meaningless since the content does not exist. "No content" suggests the second, but this will require many more circumlocutions or separate special cases (much like doing set theory without the empty set) when trying to be precise. I recommend the first interpretation--which should then be made more explicit. -- Dave Peterson SGMLWorks! davep@acm.org
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