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From: David Carlisle <d.p.carlisle@g...>
To: Roger L Costello <costello@m...>
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2022 15:30:27 +0000

On Sat, 19 Feb 2022 at 13:03, Roger L Costello <costello@m...> wrote:

Hi Folks,

For many relational operators there is a short string that represents the operator, e.g.,

<= le
!= ne

It isn't clear what system you are referring to here? xpath has four operators <=, le, != and ne, but they are four different comparison operators, which will give four different results, one is not a "short string" referring to the other (especially as all four names have length 2)

In XML there is a short string that represents reserved symbols, e.g.,

& amp
< lt

well it has two (of 5) predefined entity references amp and lt, yes.

Consider this empty XML element:

<Test/>

The "/>" symbol indicates the element is empty.

/> isn't really a separate symbol it's just part of the syntax of an empty tag, started by <

Is there a short string that is commonly used to represent the symbol that indicates the element is empty?

/> ???

If you parse XML as SGML using the xml declaration eg

https://github.com/hoehrmann/SGML-Parser-OpenSP/blob/master/samples/xml.dcl

then /> comes about due to the declarations

NESTC "/"

NET ">"

but I don't think anyone would call "NESTC (net-enabling start tag close) delimiter" a "short string" or "commonly used"

/Roger

David

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