The suggested (simple) behaviour has been implemented in xmlenc 0.22,
released a few hours ago.
Ernst
On Friday 10 January 2003 09:09, Ernst de Haan wrote:
> Hey,
>
>
> A while ago I've mentioned adding the state VOID_WITHIN_ELEMENT. This
> state would be entered when for example pcdata("") would be called in the
> state START_TAG_OPEN. This would make it possible to output a combined
> start/end tag instead of separate start/end tags.
>
> Example:
>
> startTag("html");
> attribute("lang", "en");
> pcdata("");
> endTag();
>
> Currently (xmlenc 0.21) this would produce the following XML:
>
> <html lang="en"></html>
>
> But when VOID_WITHIN_ELEMENT is fully supported, then this would produce:
>
> <html lang="en"/>
>
> Reconsidering this, I think I should not pursue this any further and
> remove all evidence I ever did. It's just getting away from simplicity.
>
> The same applies to the short-circuiting when an empty string is printed.
> For example, currently (xmlenc 0.21) the following code:
>
> startTag("head");
> comment("");
> startTag("title");
>
> produces the following XML:
>
> <head><title>
>
> instead of the (perhaps expected):
>
> <head><!----><title>
>
> I see no good reason to _keep_ the old behaviour. It's again conflicting
> with the principle of simplicity.
>
>
> Ernst
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Ernst de Haan
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