At 4:19 PM -0700 8/30/02, Dare Obasanjo wrote:
>Microsoft XML Diff and Patch 1.0 is now released.
>
According to the documentation this tool "does differentiate between
an empty element <a/> and element with no content <a></a>" This is
clearly wrong. <a/> vs. <a></a> is just syntax sugar. There is no
significant difference between them, and tools should not pretend
there is. An empty element is an element with no content and vice
versa.
This is a common misconception among developers and Microsoft should
not be encouraging it.
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