Re: XMLisms and HTML parsing and modes (was: Re: XML5)

From: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
To: liam@w3.org
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 09:14:01 +0700

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(4) the xml variant, <br/>, is based on changing NET to "/>", and
although any SGML document (and hence any HTML document before
HTML 5) can change the SGML declaration to allow />, the default
was <br/ and not <br/>

This wasn't altogether satisfactory because it meant you would be omitting the end-tag, so we actually amended SGML so that you could specify separate delimiters for start-tag close and the end-tag when using NET markup minimization. With this approach, the NESTC (net-enabling start-tag close) delimiter is "/", and the NET delimiter (used just for the end-tag) is ">". See

http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-sgml-xml-971215

James

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- Re: MicroXML
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