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bitshift
bitshift

Reputation: 6852

Xml element valid if space in the name?

Im looking over some xml files and see some of them are different only in the element names. Are both of these valid xml element names? 

<MyOption />   <MyOption/>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 38

Answers (1)

Quentin
Quentin

Reputation: 944246

You can't have a space in the name (<My Option/>), but that isn't what you have there.

You have spaces between the end of the name and the end of the tag, which is perfectly acceptable.

The / character is not part of the name. It is the empty-element tag syntax that causes the tag to represent the whole element (so there are no child nodes and no separate end tag).

Upvotes: 1

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