A little wish for short end tags

[Frank Boumphrey]

It is so easy to use script and code to isolate element text when the full
end tag is included, and it is really difficult (though possible) to do this
when 'short'  endtags are employed.

To my way of thinking this fact alone is enough to justify the survival and
existance of the full end tag.

Frank


-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Boumphrey <bckman at ix.netcom.com>
To: Gregg Reynolds <greyno at mcs.com>
Date: Saturday, May 16, 1998 1:32 AM
Subject: Re: A little wish for short end tags


>It is so easy to use script and code to isolate element text when the full
>end tag is included, and it is really difficult (though possible) to do
this
>when 'short'  endtags are employed.
>
>To my way of thinking this fact alone is enough to justify the survival and
>existance of the full end tag.
>
>Frank
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Gregg Reynolds <greyno at mcs.com>
>To: xml-dev at ic.ac.uk <xml-dev at ic.ac.uk>
>Date: Saturday, May 16, 1998 12:35 AM
>Subject: Re: A little wish for short end tags
>
>
>>Jon Bosak wrote:
>>>
>>> [Toby Speight:]
>>>
>>> | But there are plenty of (non-parsing) applications that benefit from
>>> | XML standard end-tags.
>>>
>> This is precisely the scenario that I had in mind when I invented the
>>> figure of the Desperate Perl Hacker -- someone who has no idea how to
>>> build a parser but can do very powerful operations on large quantities
>>> of XML using simple pattern matches if the presence of full end-tags
>>> is guaranteed.
>>>
>>
>>Given:
>> 1. Short tags
>> 2. Some non-trivial number of docs marked up with short-tags
>> 3. Some non-trivial number of DPH's desperate to hack at these docs;
>>
>>Isn't it likely that some non-trivial number of XML normalizers will
>>become at least as widespread as perl?  Thereby relieving our lonely
>>hackers of some non-trivial measure of their desperation?
>>
>>
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