RE: [xri] <Type>

["Scott Cantor" <cantor.2@osu.edu>]

Eran Hammer-Lahav wrote on 2009-11-07:
> I don't think we need to say anything other than explicitly allow empty
> values. A protocol can use a property with empty value to indicate type.

If you mean "no value", that's <Element xsi:nil="true"/>

I do agree that this is not likely to be common, but it is a mistake to use
empty elements alone because of both correctness, and the ambiguities
introduced by whitespace.

-- Scott