• From: GW <gregg@i...>
• To: Peter Johansson ETX/A/PO <qtxpjoh@a...>, "'xml-dev@i...'" <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 07:59:46 -0700

Makes it impossible for the parser to verify well-formedness.

At 03:43 PM 6/23/99 +0200, Peter Johansson ETX/A/PO wrote:
>What if we did not use the end-tag  </tag> and just used </> to end our
>tags would it not be a nice saving of bandwitdh? a document would look
>like this in that case
><MYLIST>
>       <LISTITEM>Listitem</>
>       <LISTITEM>Listitem</>
>       <LISTITEM>Listitem</>
></>
>Should this be ok? Where should the problems be? There is no problem
>with usual brackets in programming languages so why a problem here
>knowing which end-tag that belongs to which start-tag?
>
>//pejo
>
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