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Return true if the current node is an empty element.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<balxml_utf8readerwrapper.h>`

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bool
isEmptyElement() const override;
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== Description

That is, return true if the node type is `BAEXML_NODE_TYPE_ELEMENT` and the element ends with `/>`; and false otherwise. Note that a self‐closing empty element is considered empty, but an element with a matching end tag is not.

== Return Value

`true` if the current node is an empty element, and `false` otherwise


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