At 12:38 AM 2/22/03 -0700, Martin wrote: > >My guess is to help humans match the tags that may be pages apart.
A good editor should be able to handle that. At 08:10 AM 2/22/03 -0700, Vincent wrote: >I would assume it would make it easier for the parser to find problems like: > ><a>1<b>2<c>3</></> > >So a tag is missing, which one? ... One answer is that the document is not well-formed and there's no way to determine what it should be. Another is that a </> tag would simply close the nearest unclosed element. By that, it's the <a> that's not matched. Based on a few samples I've observed that element names in closing tags typically amount to 10-30% of the text in an XML document that's a database of some sort, like a catalog. That strikes me as a significant amount of overhead, but that's of course good news for hardware manufacturers... :) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
