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xml-parse-region fails to parse empty elements like the
following:

    <el / >

To avoid this problem, the following code:

      ;; is this an empty element ?
      (if (looking-at "/>")

should be changed to:

      ;; is this an empty element ?
      (if (looking-at "/[ \t\n]*>")

Mark.