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Kay Michael wrote: > Some of the argument against abbreviated end tags is psychological: SGML > allowed too many such options, and it caused parsers to become bloated and > incompatible. So the SGML oldies have an inbuilt distaste for them. Not this one - I still use SGML parsers specifically because they do make it easier to mark up data by inserting the minimum number of tags. Anyone involved with loosly structured legacy data would be better off using SGML than XML for the initial conversion (in my opinion) as you can often save putting in 70-80 % of the tags. It may be an expensive feature from the perspective of a parser writer, but it's very handy if you're a user. -- 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 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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