Abbreviated end tags found in a XML file

[Tim Bray]

At 12:01 PM 4/20/98 -0700, Bryan Gilbert wrote:
>At this site
>http://www.microsoft.com/msdn/sdk/inetsdk/samples/databind/composer.xml
>you will find a XML file that contains content like this:
><?XML VERSION="1.0" RMD="NONE"?>
...
><COMPSR_FIRST>Hector</>
...
>Notice that end tags do NOT contain the element name.  
>From my reading of the XML spec this file is not well formed.

You are correct

>But is it acceptable?

No.

Microsoft will doubtless fix this.   -Tim


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