Re: Sudden death: request for missing input

Tim,

Thanks for this key reminder:

> We went to a lot of work to make well-formedness easy.  It is a very 
> low bar to get over... much easier than producing valid HTML.

It's sufficiently compelling that I no longer have the same reservations that
I did about your original "draconian" proposal.

XML's ease of implementation and ease of use for hand-coders should be a
significant plank in any positioning and marketing of XML. Certainly XML's
ease of use should be more fundamental than "the customer is always right."

-Todd.