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Jon Bosak wrote: > > [Toby Speight:] > > | But there are plenty of (non-parsing) applications that benefit from > | XML standard end-tags. > This is precisely the scenario that I had in mind when I invented the > figure of the Desperate Perl Hacker -- someone who has no idea how to > build a parser but can do very powerful operations on large quantities > of XML using simple pattern matches if the presence of full end-tags > is guaranteed. > Given: 1. Short tags 2. Some non-trivial number of docs marked up with short-tags 3. Some non-trivial number of DPH's desperate to hack at these docs; Isn't it likely that some non-trivial number of XML normalizers will become at least as widespread as perl? Thereby relieving our lonely hackers of some non-trivial measure of their desperation? xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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