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LONG LIVE THE FULL END TAG! lisa Frank Boumphrey wrote: > > It is so easy to use script and code to isolate element text when the full > end tag is included, and it is really difficult (though possible) to do this > when 'short' endtags are employed. > > To my way of thinking this fact alone is enough to justify the survival and > existance of the full end tag. > > Frank > > -----Original Message----- > From: Frank Boumphrey <bckman@i...> > To: Gregg Reynolds <greyno@m...> > Date: Saturday, May 16, 1998 1:32 AM > Subject: Re: A little wish for short end tags > > >It is so easy to use script and code to isolate element text when the full > >end tag is included, and it is really difficult (though possible) to do > this > >when 'short' endtags are employed. > > > >To my way of thinking this fact alone is enough to justify the survival and > >existance of the full end tag. > > > >Frank > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Gregg Reynolds <greyno@m...> > >To: xml-dev@i... <xml-dev@i...> > >Date: Saturday, May 16, 1998 12:35 AM > >Subject: Re: A little wish for short end tags > > > > > >>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? > >> > >> > >>xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... > >>Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ > >>To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; > >>(un)subscribe xml-dev > >>To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following > >message; > >>subscribe xml-dev-digest > >>List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...) > >> > >> > > > > xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... > Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ > To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; > (un)subscribe xml-dev > To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; > subscribe xml-dev-digest > List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...) xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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