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Right, and SGML allowed for that by enabling minimized productions. XML took an evolutionary step backwards to optimize the process for a particular constituency: the so-called DePH. That decision according to those who self-selected to make the decisions, was a means to sell the product to an immediate customer. The notion was that if you wanted SGML features, you could go back to SGML. That was fallacious because the colonization extent of the product of the initial customer drives the availability of features afterwards, to wit, XML doesn't kill of HTML as some thought it would, but it kills off SGML. That was a satisfactory outcome for some and why the normative reference to SGML was requested vociferously but denied. Eventually the compromise that now exists emerged and the options were conserved. Given costs, these may not be realistic options, but that is the way the market goes given the early decisions of the self-selected group. The problem is the behavior of self-selection of those who choose choices and then the choices can result downstream in behaviors that make it difficult to revisit the early decisions. For example, TREX now has a low chance of being adopted unless software for it becomes quickly available on the Microsoft platform. Even then, because that is a feature-rich environment, it may not be noticed. The message is not the medium. Len http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h -----Original Message----- From: Murali Mani [mailto:mani@C...] 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.
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