>> There's absolutelly no reason for doing so. You aren't >> following the stamdard more closely with that. > Oh yes, there is a reason. Using omittags to the fullest extent, > one may indeed get rid of a lot of markup, but then as a human, I get > confused (unless I happen to be very familair with the DTD). I, too, > tend not to omit tags at all (after all, that is not a hardship for > me, since I have an intelligent editor). It also makes the > indentation prettier (and easier to scan) that way, for humans.
But that is completelly subjective (is that an English word?). I personally find it nicer to have as little markup as posible (while still having a perfectly DTD compliant document) and a good identation =).