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

[Hugh Cayless]

Surely those are identical? I suppose you could insert an empty text node
in the infoset, but it would be lost as soon as you serialized and then
re-parsed it. I was under the very strong impression that <foo></foo> and
<foo/> were exactly the same from an XML processor's point of view....

On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Sebastian Rahtz <
sebastian.rahtz at it.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

>
> On 3 Oct 2014, at 16:55, Lou Burnard <lou.burnard at retired.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> …
>
> > 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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