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Bob Foster:
> 
> Conversely, James Clark has written several serializers, e.g., XmlWriter 
> in trang, in which the convention is:
> 
> startElement*
>    attribute*
> 
>    (text | startElement)*
> 
> endElement
> 
> No explicit end-start-tag is used or needed. The writer can tell when a 
> start tag needs to end; in fact, the convention helps to produce empty 
> element tags without backtracking. Use is simple and natural.

James Clark is an honorable man.

XmlWriter from trang is tailored to the particular use in trang; namely
for tree traversal. It is only one test case of many.

David Tolpin

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