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Hi Norman, On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 2:46 AM, Norman Gray <norman@a...> wrote: > > Dmitre, hello. > > On 2010 Dec 5, at 17:55, Dimitre Novatchev wrote: > >>> Problem: given <:org.w3c.html.html>, is the proper match >>> </:org.w3c.html.html>, or </html>, or either? >> >> Either, which means that everybody will use the latter for convenience. >> >> Why is this so? Because in a well-formed XML document there is only >> one possible closing tag at any moment (we cannot have two or more >> same-level tags open at the same position). > > If one accepts that reasoning (and I do), then you could abbreviate this still further, and accept </> as a generic closing tag. Yes. However than we lose the visual reminder what this is closing. Except for cases of very near start tag and vertically well-formatted markup inside it, this will be unreadable and confusing. > > Echoing the start-tag in the closing tag makes things easier for dumber parsers, and can occasionally provide a useful sanity check. Â But only occasionally: most of the time it's just (to me) annoying visual clutter. [pet gripe] > I rarely mind, because it is the IDE that generates the </veryLooongNaaameee> whenever I enter the ">" of the <veryLooongNaaameee> . I never type the end tag myself. -- Cheers, Dimitre Novatchev --------------------------------------- Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence. --------------------------------------- To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk ------------------------------------- Never fight an inanimate object ------------------------------------- You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play
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