- From: Digitome Ltd. <sean@digitome.com>
- Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 13:35:51 +0100
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
I understood that tag minimisation was to be of minimal importance in the XML effort. From a Perl/Python hackers perspective I really want to have both start and end-tags for each element! Without that, many more XML processing apps will have to worry about formal parsing of the XML source. This flies in the face of what I thought would be true. It fails the "grep test" and therefore I would prefer to see end tags stay as they are. BTW, I think "space saving" is a very dubious reason for revisiting minimisation. I need a gig disk to install the latest C++ compilers these days. In 1984 I had a very nice Pascal programming environment on a *single* 360k floppy disk. The explosion is size is more to do with extra colours, fonts and graphics than increases is programming power. The sheer size of multimedia files floating around make fully normalized XML from relational databases look positively spartan! XML Sean Sean Mc Grath sean@digitome.com Digitome Electronic Publishing http://www.digitome.com
Received on Saturday, 17 May 1997 09:00:07 UTC