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Simon St.Laurent wrote > > I'll admit to getting fed up with typing end-tags on occasion. However, I > find typing it far simpler than trying to sort out the meaning of: > </></></> > Figuring out where the end tags belong can still become a non-trivial > problem quite rapidly. True, but my suggestion does not prevent you using the name in the closing tag when it is useful. Also, I imagine you normally use some kind of indentation to make the suggested case a little easier to read. > If you want that short form, or any of the other short forms you list, I'd > strongly recommend writing some simple code that converts from the short > form to the more verbose XML 1.0. Sure, I was thinking of adding these extensions (perhaps they should be called contractions) as an option to ElCel's xmlcanon [1]. Would anybody find this useful? Regards ~Rob [1] http://www.elcel.com/products/xmlcanon.html
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