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As much as I disliked it at the time, that is precisely the reason Tim Bray presented for the Draconian parse when XML was in the process of being spec'd. It seemed counter to common practice at the time, but in the context of a large loosely distributed set of tools, it is one of the sanest decisions made. Live and learn. We often debate here the freedoms of the developer and the local node to choose its options; yet, we must be sensitive to the core set of choices we must all agree in order to maintain that freedom of other choices. That is, to stay loose, those core choices are non-negotiable. len -----Original Message----- From: Michael Brennan [mailto:Michael_Brennan@A...] So we just need to keep educating people about this, and things will continue to improve. I think we also need to learn the lessons from what has happened on the web. The idea of having forgiving tools sounds great in theory, but it encourages sloppy practices on the part of developers. It is because of "forgiving" browsers that we have a web populated with malformed HTML content. We should try not to repeat that mistake with XML.
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