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epochwolf on April 27, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: An employee, whose last name is Null, kills our em...

With xml, I thought <tag/> was null and <tag></tag> was an empty string.

ScottBurson on April 28, 2012 [–]

No, those two forms are equivalent: both indicate an empty string.

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