Re: [xml] Detecting empty nodes

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 09:49:43AM -0400, Jason Viers wrote:
> neil scales wrote:
> > <MyXml>
> >    <default/>
> > </MyXml>
> >
> >
> > <MyXml>
> >    <default></default>
> >   
> 
> These are identical, by the definition of XML.  There is no way to 
> detect the difference between the two, nor should there be.

  actually Microsoft managed to make a difference in the behaviour of
the xmlReader, which I tried to mimic as much as possible. Try 
  xmllint --stream --debug 
on both examples :-)

Daniel

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