Rod McChesney wrote:

> To retain some vestige of HTML or XML syntax, I believe this would
> have to look like
>
> <IF>
> <ELSE>
> </ELSE>
> </IF>
>
> and so on. Otherwise the tags don't nest meaningfully. This kind of
> thing is easy to hack into a parser but SGML/HTML/XML tools won't
> necessarily understand it. Unless I'm just missing something...

I agree that

<IF>
<ELSE>
</IF>

is very non-XLM-ish.  On the other hand, neither is:

<DISPLAY>

with no </DISPLAY>.  And neither is:

<USEBEAN>
<SETFROMREQUEST>
</USEBEAN>

That is, the <SETFROMREQUEST> has no close tag.

Given these asymetries, I think

<IF>
<ELSE>
<ELSEIF>
</IF>

is just fine.  Are you listening, Sun?

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