XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Ed Davies <edavies AT nildram.co.uk>]

Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> I experimented with taking out the extra space. It broke a lot of unit 
> tests that depend on the space. Not in an essential way, of course. I 
> could just revise those several dozen unit tests as well. However, I do 
> wonder if other peoples' test suites  might also now be depending on 
> this appearance. I'm thus inclined to leave the space in and accept the 
> minor inconsistency; at least through 1.1; unless there's a massive hue 
> and cry to take it out. :-)


Not exactly a hue and cry, but if you're going to make a change I'd vote
for adding a space where it is currently omitted.  XHTML 1.0 recommends
them:

  http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#C_2

> C.2. Empty Elements
>
> Include a space before the trailing / and > of empty elements, e.g. 
> <br />, <hr /> and <img src="karen.jpg" alt="Karen" />.

Ed Davies