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Re: A little wish for short end tags

• From: Toby Speight <tms@a...>
• To: "XML developers' list" <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: 14 May 1998 12:15:26 +0100

Paul> Paul Prescod <URL:mailto:papresco@t...>

Paul> I do not believe that there is any way ot implementat a legal XML
Paul> parser without keeping around all of the information required to
Paul> implement short end tags.  Checking that an end-tag matches its
Paul> start-tag (the current situation) is no easier than not checking.

But there are plenty of (non-parsing) applications that benefit from
XML standard end-tags.  An obvious one is selection of an element from
a document; a regexp search for the start-tag, and then just match
start and end tags *for that element type*, keeping track of depth
*for that element type* (we don't even need to do that if the element
type is known not to be nestable in itself).  That application need
not even notice tags for other element types.

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