When reading an XML document, Arbortext Editor recognizes the sequence /> as the tag close delimiter for empty elements. When writing an XML document, Arbortext Editor writes out elements with EMPTY declared content using the sequence /> for the tag close delimiter.

When reading an XML document, Arbortext Editor recognizes the sequence ?> as the close delimiter of processing instructions (PIs). A right angle bracket (>) in the content of a PI in an XML document does not terminate the PI. When writing a document as XML, Arbortext Editor writes out PIs using the sequence ?> for close delimiters; any ?> sequence in the content of a PI will be replaced by the sequence ?>.