- From: Martin Bryan <mtbryan@sgml.u-net.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 07:56:39 +0100
- To: Michael Sperberg-McQueen <U35395@UICVM.CC.UIC.EDU>, James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>, W3C SGML Working Group <w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org>
At 07:25 PM 12/9/96 +0100, Michael Sperberg-McQueen wrote: >James's design criterion sounds like a good one. Empty end-tags and >unquoted attribute values do indeed fall into the class of things I had >looked at and said "It's not too hard, let's leave it in", but which are >also clearly inessential. Any doubt I had in my mind went away when I >asked myself "Well, if this feature isn't in XML, will you be forced to >write a pre-processor for it, to translate your working format into >XML?" Just to make it clear to everyone the consequences of what you are saying, you will be forcing me to enter <OL compact="compact"> rather than <OL compact>. (Note that <OL "compact"> is invalid SGML!) Martin Bryan ---- Martin Bryan, The XML Outside, Churchdown, Glos. GL3 2PU, UK Phone/Fax: +44 1452 714029 WWW home page: http://www.u-net.com/~sgml/
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