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

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 3 Oct 2014, at 19:19, Hugh Cayless <philomousos at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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....

if the processor schema aware, it can look up and see if the element
_could_ have contained anything? i vaguely thought the info set
retained that sort of info.

no matter, when serialised we agree its indistinguishable
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