Progress on #1118 (empty elements)

I haven't looked at the code yet, but rather than "emptiness", could it be
called something like "emptyElementFormat" (which I think makes the
meaning clearer), perhaps with something like "emptyElement",
"openCloseTags" and "default" as values?

Thanks, Cheers, Tony.

On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:11:56 -0000, Alex Cruise wrote:

> I've come up with a scheme that I think addresses #1118 pretty well; it
> works like this:
>
> - Elem has a new parameter "emptiness", a Byte for memory efficiency.
> It has three legal values, denoting "minimize", "don't minimize", and
> "default".
> - Parsed elements always have a non-default emptiness value reflecting
> their original form
> - Those who construct elements programmatically can opt to specify their
> emptiness, or just let the default ride
>
> - There's a new Utility.serialize method in town, and it now accepts an
> enum parameter for "minimizeTags" instead of toXML's Boolean:
> * Always minimize empty tags
> * Never minimize empty tags
> * Default: Minimize tags according to their "emptiness" parameter
>
> Anyone who cares about this issue is cordially invited to read and/or
> try out my patch:
>
> https://lampsvn.epfl.ch/trac/scala/ticket/1118#comment:7
>
> I'll write a bit more documentation and tests before I commit it.
>
> Thanks in advance for your feedback!
>
> -0xe1a
>
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