At 06:48 PM 9/10/96 +0100, Martin Bryan wrote: >7.4 (a) Empty and unclosed start-tags are obviously not needed by XML, but >could there be a case for NET-enabled start-tags to delimit numeric data? No. They complicate parser construction, are kind of hard to explain to people, and don't really add that much benefit. Cheers, Tim Bray tbray@textuality.com http://www.textuality.com/ +1-604-488-1167