[tei-council] <content> vs <mixedContent>

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 3 Oct 2014, at 16:55, Lou Burnard <lou.burnard at retired.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
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> The reason for treating it differently is that a serialization can have 
> a zero length textnode, which is not quite the same as an empty element.

there is a difference in the info set, but not in the serialisation. how can
there be?

<foo></foo> and <foo/> are indistinguishable unless you are schema-aware.

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