- From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 17:05:43 -0500
- To: Uche Ogbuji <uche@ogbuji.net>
- Cc: "public-microxml (public-microxml@w3.org)" <public-microxml@w3.org>
On Sat, 2012-11-17 at 13:27 -0700, Uche Ogbuji wrote: > > (a) <e a="x"/>, or > > > > (b) <e a="x/"> > I prefer (a) since it's the likeliest interpretation of the author's > intention. <p><a href=/socks/>more interesting articles</a></p> (a) is not unreasonable; a better implementation would look ahead and find the </a>, although in HTML one could perhaps omit the </a> because of the </p> and have the "right thing" happen, because of the domain-specific knowledge in the parser. (b) is the right answer here of course. Since MicroXML is/was aimed at Web usage, I think (b) the better choice, *or* build-in to the parser a list of empty HTML elements and use (a) for those and (b) for the rest. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml Co-author, 5th edition of "Beginning XML", Wrox, Summer 2012
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