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Asked: May 15, 20262026-05-15T23:38:46+00:00 2026-05-15T23:38:46+00:00

Why would you have a rootnode in an XML document that looks like this:

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Why would you have a rootnode in an XML document that looks like this:

<return/>

Why is that slash there? I have never seen an XML document like this, however in an application I am debugging, a root node looking like this one is created, and appending any child nodes seems to be failing.

Removing the slash crashes the program.

It uses MSXML DOM in C++ under windows.

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    2026-05-15T23:38:46+00:00Added an answer on May 15, 2026 at 11:38 pm

    <foo/> is equivalent to <foo></foo>. This is known as an empty element. Without the ending /, the open tag will not have a corresponding closing tag, and thus an error.

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