RE: Abbreviated form of XSLT?

On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 23:41, Deborah Aleyne Lapeyre wrote:

> I've been spoiled by years of markup to think
> that starting and ending explicitly is not
> verbose, but polite.
> 
> --Debbie

<message>
 <greetings>
  <word>Hi</word>
  <word ref="http://xmlfr.org/index/person/debbie+lapeyre/">  
   Debbie
  </word>
 </greetings>
 <para>
  <sentence>
   <word>Yes</word>
   <comma/>
   <word ref="http://xmlfr.org/index/person/debbie+lapeyre/">  
    Debbie
   </word>
   <word ref="http://xmlfr.org/index/person/debbie+lapeyre/">  
    you
   </word>
   <word>are</word>
   <word>right</word>
   <comma/>
   <word ref="http://xmlfr.org/index/person/eric+van+der+vlist/">
    I
   </word>
   <word>suggest</word>
   <word>to</word>
   <word>generalize</word>
   <word>the</word>
   <word>usage</word>
   <word>of</word>
   <word>explicit</word>
   <word>markup</word>
   <word>to</word>
   <word>be</word>
   <word>more</word>
   <word>polite</word>
   <emoticon>:-)</emoticon>
   <exclamation/>
  </sentence>
 </para>
 <signature ref="http://xmlfr.org/index/person/eric+van+der+vlist/">
   Eric
 </signature>
</message>

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