Re: Identifying absent behavior

"Garrett Steed" <gmsteed@seasllc.com> writes:

> Hello All,
> 
> I'm working on a Schema that need's to know if the value of an XML mark up
> is absent.
> If there are any absent values it must not validate the file. I don't know
> if the W3C has made a decision on the  method yet.  If anyone knows how to
> deal with this please tell me.
> 
> 	Absent c element: <t></t>
> 	Empty  c element: <t><c/></t>
> 	Nil    c element: <t><c xsi:nil="true"/></t>

Please clarify which of the above you which to allow and which to
disallow.

ht
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