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Greg Colyer wrote: > if there's at least one closing tag at the end > <trade> > <ticker>IBM</ticker> > <amount>100</amount> >then we don't have the main problem, even though w-f > is still violated. You may not have problems with the <amount> element, however, you still don't know if corruption has prevented transfer of data that might have followed the <amount> tag and might be significant for the consuming application. For instance, let us say that the schema for the <trade> element says that it may have a child <exchange> which defaults to "NYSE". If there is no closing </trade> tag, you don't know if the value for <exchange> should be <NYSE> or some other value. Thus, there is still significant ambiguity here... bob wyman
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