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- From: "W. Eliot Kimber" <eliot@isogen.com>
- To: xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
- Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 15:41:26 -0500
At 10:38 PM 5/8/98 +0200, Jarle Stabell wrote:
>I would love to see empty end tags making it into the standard in the
>future. In many cases, one only marks up single words, and then empty end
>tags would justify having longer and more descriptive GI's, when forced to
>write both start and end tags fully, one may be too tempted to use
>"cryptic"/abbreviated GI's.
If you're going to ask for empty end tags for this, then why not go all the
way and reinstate NET-enabled start tags?
<Para>asd asdfasd <A.word.that.I.want.to.mark/theword/ and this is not
marked</Para>
Markup minimization is a slippery slope--in for a penny, in for a pound.
Cheers,
E.
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