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short-tag considered unhealthy
From: OXVAXD::LOU "Lou Burnard" 11-SEP-1996 21:28:04.58
To: MX%"tbray@textuality.com"
CC: LOU
Subj: RE: SHORTTAG
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>The big problem here is the TEI, which makes heavy use of the minimized
No sentence beginning like this can possibly be true. In point of fact,
the TEI recommendations do not officially recommend shorttag. Au contraire.
The BNC relies on it because it has 100 million words to tag with POS, but
does so fully knowing that this is *not* kosher TEI.
>I think all forms of SHORTTAG complicate parsing, don't add enough, and
>should be dropped in XML.
I agree.
Lou