I just talked to the dev responsible for the tool and confirmed that
this is indeed a typo in the overview documentation on the web page. The
documentation will be corrected shortly.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron Skonnard [mailto:]
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 6:48 AM
To:
Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> 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.
This seems to just be a typo. It should read "does not
differentitate...". I just tested it.
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