RE: A little wish for short end tags (Was: RE: SDD bogus)

Bryan Gilbert (Bryan_Gilbert@pml.com)
Mon, 11 May 1998 08:47:40 -0700

Yes don't forget that XML is meant
for Humans too. Short end tags are a pain
when there is lots of intermediate text.
C programmers are familar with this
when they have to deal with nested
#ifdef #endif statements: the #endif part
is a short end tag.
For non-C programmers consider trying
to find out which start tag </> belongs
to after you have read pages and pages
of text.

So the best solution is the current solution: each
start tag has a complete matching end tag. IMHO

Bryan Gilbert

PS Formerly I wanted short end tags for embedded
processors but human readability is more important
to me.