RE: Still quizzing Microsoft on minimization

Sean Mc Grath (digitome@iol.ie)
Tue, 30 Dec 1997 17:40:07 GMT


The </> minimisation is used in the DSO examples that come with msxml 1.8
and still parse with msxml.

>Thanks for catching the error. That copy is out-of-date. I'll send a note
>to Dr. Gui and ask for it to be fixed.
>
>--Andrew Layman
> AndrewL@microsoft.com
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Wendell Piez [SMTP:marcus@lab.com]
>> Sent: Monday, December 29, 1997 10:46 AM
>> To: XML Dev
>> Subject: Still quizzing Microsoft on minimization
>>
>> FWIW, this is quoted from a page currently on the Microsoft site:
>> http://www.microsoft.com/msdn/news/drgui/102097.htm --
>>
>> > Tags may be ended in one of three ways. As in HTML, <TAG> is ended by
>> > </TAG>. Since XML is strict about proper nesting, you can also end the
>> > innermost tag with </>, which is much simpler....
Sean Mc Grath
sean at digitome dot com