A little wish for short end tags

[Lisa Rein]

LONG LIVE THE FULL END TAG!

lisa

Frank Boumphrey wrote:
> 
> 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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> >
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