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Not sure if it is relevant -- XML document is a tree -- edit it as a tree, and you do *not* need any end tags. End tags are there only for getting the tree out of the string. I think I like to see the tree and not the start and end-tags. cheers and regards - murali. On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: > Markup being rather regular when formatted lends > itself to scanning by eye at least in the structures. > YeOldeRightMissing Quote is the one that is hard > to spot and for some reason is almost epidemic. > Of course, taking away minimization helped for > eyeballing it in many cases. > > Am I the only one who doesn't like fully endtagged > samples in texts? I realize people like to copy > them and online it makes some sense, but in a > printed text, a deeply nested example takes up > a lot of space and as much as half of it can > be the end tags de-nesting. > > Len > http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard > > Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. > Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Marcus Carr [mailto:mrc@a...] > Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 6:14 PM > To: XML-Dev > Subject: Re: DTD formal syntax > > > > "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" wrote: > > > Weirdly, after some time, they go to editing > > in the ASCII editor again. If the elements > > and attributes are named reasonably, and they > > know their subject domain, they can do it and > > will. > > Absolutely. Before the Philipines and India got so good at marking up data, > we > ran a reasonably sized team of people who cleaned up the anomalies left over > from programmatic conversion. We always had plenty of structured editors > inhouse, but the vast majority of people found themselves using their > favourite > ASCII editor anyway. Even for CALS tables, there were a number of people who > felt that this was a more productive approach. > > > -- > Regards, > > Marcus Carr email: mrc@a... > ___________________________________________________________________ > Allette Systems (Australia) www: http://www.allette.com.au > ___________________________________________________________________ > "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." > - Einstein > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org, an initiative of OASIS > <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To unsubscribe from this elist send a message with the single word > "unsubscribe" in the body to: xml-dev-request@l... > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org, an initiative of OASIS > <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To unsubscribe from this elist send a message with the single word > "unsubscribe" in the body to: xml-dev-request@l... >
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