Cart
[Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries]
Jon Bosak wrote: > > SGML gives you the option of using empty end tags, and the > historical fact is that most large users, given this option and a > sufficient amount of experience with it, choose not to use it. Jon is right. I found it easier to read when the SGML instances were large and the designer used a lot of content types in deeper hierachies than one gets used to with HTML. For DTDs like the MIL Content Data Model, or the IADS DTDs where the indexes are named types mapped to stylesheet tables, one often wants to reach in and grab pieces of the tree easily. a good editor helps, but a lot of people won't have what they really need unless some serious price reductions happen in that market. Moving elements with highlighting is easier with the endtags, ihmo, too, because when one hits the end of a deep branch, a lot of grouped short end tags are hard to count by eye. sgml: people always say no one will edit it by hand, and almost everyone does. len bullard 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...)
|
