"Eric S. Raymond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2007-02-04 11:04 -0500:

> Michael(tm) Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > <para></para> is valid. It's not required to have content.
> > A <para></para> instance won't generate validation errors.
> 
> Huh?  About a week ago I tried a change to the way I handled list terminations
> and xmllint complained biiterly about <para></para>.

I don't know why it would have. If you test with the following, it
should validate without any errors or warnings.

<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd";>
<article>
  <title>foo</title>
  <para/>
</article>


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