[Expat-discuss] Re: empty tags

[Carlos Pereira]

>I know there was a discussion of this some time ago, but I would like to 
>check something.
>When the parser comes across a tag like <plus/>, which function gets 
>called? Is <plus/> treated as a start tag, an end tag, both a start and end 
>tag, or character data?

This case is treated EXACTLY as if you had <plus></plus>,
so the start_element function is called first, then the 
end_element is called. In fact your code doesn't even
know whether the data came from <plus/> or <plus></plus>.

This is somewhere in the manual ;-)

Carlos