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[Toby Speight:] | But there are plenty of (non-parsing) applications that benefit from | XML standard end-tags. An obvious one is selection of an element from | a document; a regexp search for the start-tag, and then just match | start and end tags *for that element type*, keeping track of depth | *for that element type* (we don't even need to do that if the element | type is known not to be nestable in itself). That application need | not even notice tags for other element types. 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. Jon 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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