To my way of thinking this fact alone is enough to justify the survival and
existance of the full end tag.
Frank
-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Boumphrey <bckman@ix.netcom.com>
To: Gregg Reynolds <greyno@mcs.com>
Date: Saturday, May 16, 1998 1:32 AM
Subject: Re: A little wish for short end tags
>It is so easy to use script and code to isolate element text when the full
>end tag is included, and it is really difficult (though possible) to do
this
>when 'short' endtags are employed.
>
>To my way of thinking this fact alone is enough to justify the survival and
>existance of the full end tag.
>
>Frank
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Gregg Reynolds <greyno@mcs.com>
>To: xml-dev@ic.ac.uk <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
>Date: Saturday, May 16, 1998 12:35 AM
>Subject: Re: A little wish for short end tags
>
>
>>Jon Bosak wrote:
>>>
>>> [Toby Speight:]
>>>
>>> | But there are plenty of (non-parsing) applications that benefit from
>>> | XML standard end-tags.
>>>
>> This is precisely the scenario that I had in mind when I invented the
>>> figure of the Desperate Perl Hacker -- someone who has no idea how to
>>> build a parser but can do very powerful operations on large quantities
>>> of XML using simple pattern matches if the presence of full end-tags
>>> is guaranteed.
>>>
>>
>>Given:
>> 1. Short tags
>> 2. Some non-trivial number of docs marked up with short-tags
>> 3. Some non-trivial number of DPH's desperate to hack at these docs;
>>
>>Isn't it likely that some non-trivial number of XML normalizers will
>>become at least as widespread as perl? Thereby relieving our lonely
>>hackers of some non-trivial measure of their desperation?
>>
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