RE: and different ?

[Evyatar Kafkafi]

My question is about the DOM - will the 2 DOM trees be the same? According to your answer, they should be different.   As far as I can check, they are the same ! So after parsing the XML to DOM, I can't tell whether it was "a" having empty string, or 'a" with no content.   I need some way to know from DOM tree which of the 2 XMLs it was...       Evyatar -----Original Message----- From: Tobbi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu, June 20, 2002 3:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: <a/> and <a></a> different ?    Hi, I suppose that you don't get the same result parsing via SAX or DOM.   The difference is that <a></a> means: element "a" having an empty string as the child (or whitespace, I'm not sure) On the other side <a/> means: element "a" with NO content, i.e. in DOM this element shouldn't have any childs.      Tobbi ----- Original Message ----- From: Evyatar Kafkafi To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 1:59 PM Subject: <a/> and <a></a> different ? Hi all,   Suppose I have one XML like this: <s><a></a></s> and a second XML like this: <s><a/></s>   When I parse with a DOMParser, will I get the same DOM tree for both XMLs? When I parse with SAX Pasrer, will I get the same SAX events for both XMLs?   TIA     Evyatar