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Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: > *Bonehead elements* might be good. Other than in > the SGML Handbook, I've never seen these used > in practice. You haven't spent enough time around ugly (read "cost effective by coding alone") markup jobs then. I've used omissable start and end tags more times than I could count - the classic situation is for turning something like: <section>Laundry basket <para>The laundry basket has a long and fascinating history... into something like: <section> <title>Laundry basket</title> <para>The laundry basket has a long and fascinating history... It's intuitive, equivalent and less markup. I'm surprised that there's so little enthusiasm for this - I've had markup teams ask for this sort of change to be added to a DTD. Omission is one of the key drivers that has kept us using SGML en route to the delivery of XML data. Normalizers are cheap, markup people aren't. -- Regards, Marcus Carr email: mcarr@a... ___________________________________________________________________ Allette Systems (Australia) www: http://www.allette.com.au ___________________________________________________________________ "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Einstein
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