Thanks for your speedy response Dale,
Yes, know that within XML, they are defined to be equivalent, but
there a many legacy SGML parsers that differentiate them, such as Web
browsers.
I was -hoping- that there would be a way of preserving the form of the
text, regardless of it's equivalence. But I am assuming from your
answer that it is probably not be the case.
B.
On 8 Apr 2009, at 15:37, Dale Worley wrote:
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 15:19 +0100, Ben Griffin wrote:
If I have an element with no content such as: .... <xxx></xxx> ....
How can I preserve it as an element, without it being normalised to
the empty element <xxx />
The two forms are defined to be equivalent, so I wouldn't be
surprise if
XML output software feels free to replace the one with the other.
Dale
