https://brunopedro.com/tags/w3c/Recent content in W3C on Bruno PedroHugoen-usTue, 08 May 2018 10:00:15 -0700https://brunopedro.com/2013/02/11/empty-xml-element/Mon, 11 Feb 2013 19:40:56 +0000https://brunopedro.com/2013/02/11/empty-xml-element/<p>Following a very enthusiastic discussion today at <a href="https://cloudwork.com/" title="CloudWork">work</a>, here&rsquo;s the proper definition of an empty <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/" title="XML">XML</a> element, according to the W3C Recommendation of 26 November 2008:</p> <blockquote> <p>[Definition: An element with no content is said to be empty.] The representation of an empty element is either a start-tag immediately followed by an end-tag, or an empty-element tag. &ndash; <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/" title="Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Fifth Edition)">Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Fifth Edition)</a> § <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#dt-content" title="Content of Elements">&ldquo;Content of Elements&rdquo;</a></p>