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At 10:20 AM -0500 1/17/02, Gavin Thomas Nicol wrote: >How about > > person [ > first-name [Gavin] > last-name [Nicol] > ] > That looks like S-expressions again, just with square brackets instead of braces >or perhaps > > \begin{person} > \first-name{Gavin} > \last-name{Nicol} > \end{person} > I'm not sure what you mean by this. Looking at it, there do not seem to be any end-tags for first-name or last-name. If that's what you meant, then you've reinvented SGML's omitted end-tag syntax, and we all know how well that worked. :-) Oh, now I get it. You have \begin and a \end for the simple text elements and \begin and \end for elements that have children. That might work. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@m... | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | The XML Bible, 2nd Edition (Hungry Minds, 2001) | | http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/bible2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764547607/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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