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Marcus Carr <mcarr@a...> wrote: | You haven't spent enough time around ugly (read "cost effective by | coding alone") markup jobs then. I've used omissable start and end tags | more times than I could count - the classic situation is for turning | something like: Shades of QWERTY and (old) LinuxDoc! | <section>Laundry basket | <para>The laundry basket has a long and fascinating history... | | into something like: | | <section> | <title>Laundry basket</title> | <para>The laundry basket has a long and fascinating history... | | It's intuitive, equivalent and less markup. ... until the time someone innocently leaves the title blank. : <section> : <para>The laundry basket has a long and fascinating history... This throws a validation error (<title> is not omissible if the element has no content.) Some people may try to "fix" this kind of problem - sometimes you really can't think of a title - with pernicious mixed content: <!ELEMENT section - - (#PCDATA,para+) > Except, that would bomb too, whenever a user innocently added a </para> somewhere and started a new <para> on the next line... Eventually, to keep the SGML gremlins away, it becomes prudent to specify <!ELEMENT title - o (#PCDATA) > | I'm surprised that there's so little enthusiasm for this - We all learn the hard way...
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