Re: Abbreviated end tags found in a XML file
Tim Bray (tbray@textuality.com)
Mon, 20 Apr 1998 12:15:05 -0700
At 12:01 PM 4/20/98 -0700, Bryan Gilbert wrote:
>At this site
>http://www.microsoft.com/msdn/sdk/inetsdk/samples/databind/composer.xml
>you will find a XML file that contains content like this:
><?XML VERSION="1.0" RMD="NONE"?>
...
><COMPSR_FIRST>Hector</>
...
>Notice that end tags do NOT contain the element name.
>From my reading of the XML spec this file is not well formed.
You are correct
>But is it acceptable?
No.
Microsoft will doubtless fix this. -Tim