[jdom-interest] empty elements

[Brett McLaughlin]

> Here's a rather silly question...
>
> I notice XMLOutputter outputs empty elements as
>
> <element /> (with a space between the element name and the slash)
>
> Is this legal XML (it has to be, right?), and is there an easy way to
> get rid of that space?

It is legal, and it's there because of annoyances like Netscape browsers
which fail on <br/> but not on <br />. Both are legal XML.

I don't know of any way to get rid of it, because we've never had a good
reason to provide a way.


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Brett McLaughlin
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