Melvin Chin wrote:
> May I seek some opinions on this topic/proposal?
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> To extend XML spec just a little to permit use of "</>" (GXTC)
> to be placed wherever it is permitted in the current XML spec
> to place a closing tag. The semantics will be to effect a
> closing of the nearest open tag before the position of GXTC.
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wondering what benefit to this other then some syntatic human orientated
sugar ?
u know extending the XML spec to do this would have a pretty serious
impact on other things such as XSLT, XPATH, etc...so its highly unlikely!
as a sidenote: have you checked out http://www.lmnl.net, its a good
example of taking what is existing and achieving something useful.
gl, Jim Fuller
