-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > Christopher Smith wrote: > >> The big think with XML end tags is that it allows the parser to recover >> when someone makes a mistake. It's essentially redundant information >> that can be used to make sense of the mess and potentially correct it. > > Sure, except that I know of exactly *zero* parsers that do that in > practice. And, in addition, we wind up with a whole new class of > errors--misordered close tags.
Misorderd close tags get reordered/ignored. The Netscape parser fixed up a lot of errors like this pretty much from day one, and I'm pretty sure that Mozilla continues that fine tradition. IE also does it. So, I'm not exactly sure how you can say that. > I don't particularly care. I just find it odd that people get all bent > out of shape about these kinds of things and extol the virtues of things > which are pretty much equivalent. Well, XML was never designed to be primarily read by humans.... ;-) - --Chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHfWmoOagjPOywMBARAplrAKD38Mf9DbiTrFvcxVgTrg83k70PIACfbZJA nrbXw8eK9XunbXoJtzSrj6g= =eZnC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
