Re: [xml-dev] Is there a short string that is commonly used to represent "/>"?
On Sat, 19 Feb 2022 at 13:03, Roger L Costello <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Folks,
For many relational operators there is a short string that represents the operator, e.g.,
<= le
!= ne
It isn't clear what system you are referring to here? xpath has four operators <=, le, != and ne, but they are four different comparison operators, which will give four different results, one is not a "short string" referring to the other (especially as all four names have length 2)
In XML there is a short string that represents reserved symbols, e.g.,
& amp
< lt
well it has two (of 5) predefined entity references amp and lt, yes.
Consider this empty XML element:
<Test/>
The "/>" symbol indicates the element is empty.
/> isn't really a separate symbol it's just part of the syntax of an empty tag, started by <
Is there a short string that is commonly used to represent the symbol that indicates the element is empty?
/> ???
If you parse XML as SGML using the xml declaration eg
then /> comes about due to the declarations
| NESTC "/" |
but I don't think anyone would call
"NESTC (net-enabling start tag close) delimiter" a "short string" or "commonly used"
/Roger
David
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