- From: len bullard <cbullard@hiwaay.net>
- Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 21:51:04 -0500
- To: Andrew Layman <andrewl@microsoft.com>
- CC: "'Peter@ursus.demon.co.uk'" <Peter@ursus.demon.co.uk>, w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
Andrew Layman wrote: > > Peter Murray-Rust writes: > > >SD1 (short tags). This is trivial for parser writers, but ... error > >recovery for missing endtags in WF documents would be effectively error > >creation. > > The current language definition specifies that there is no tolerance for > missing end tags. If the document is missing an end tag, it is not a > well-formed document and simply cannot be processed. Which is a good reason sometimes to skip the XML application profile of SGML and use SGML instead. Duh. len
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