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Re: A little wish for short end tags

• From: Gregg Reynolds <greyno@m...>
• To: xml-dev@i...
• Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 23:03:36 -0400

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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