• From: Sean Mc Grath <digitome@i...>
• To: xml-dev@i...
• Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 17:40:07 GMT

The </> minimisation is used in the DSO examples that come with msxml 1.8
and still parse with msxml.

>Thanks for catching the error.  That copy is out-of-date.  I'll send a note
>to Dr. Gui and ask for it to be fixed.
>
>--Andrew Layman
>   AndrewL@m...
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:	Wendell Piez [SMTP:marcus@l...]
>> Sent:	Monday, December 29, 1997 10:46 AM
>> To:	XML Dev
>> Subject:	Still quizzing Microsoft on minimization
>> 
>> FWIW, this is quoted from a page currently on the Microsoft site:
>> http://www.microsoft.com/msdn/news/drgui/102097.htm --
>> 
>> > Tags may be ended in one of three ways. As in HTML, <TAG> is ended by
>> > </TAG>. Since XML is strict about proper nesting, you can also end the 
>> > innermost tag with </>, which is much simpler....
Sean Mc Grath
sean at digitome dot com




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