- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:40:21 +0100
- To: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
- Cc: Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>, Robin Berjon <robin@berjon.com>, "Bjoern Hoehrmann (derhoermi@gmx.net)" <derhoermi@gmx.net>, "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>
David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk> writes:
> xml-er parsing in the current draft has no knowledge of any particular
> schema so no predefined list of empty/void elements. so <x><y> (if
> that is the complete document) parses as <x><y/></x> as they are
> parsed as open tags and the stack of open elements is closed off at
> eof.
Seems to me this is missing a trick -- the TagSoup approach of
exploiting a truly minimal schema allows for _much_ better handling of
this issue. See my PYXup work [1] or the original [2].
ht
[1] http://conferences.idealliance.org/extreme/html/2007/Thompson01/EML2007Thompson01.html
[2] http://home.ccil.org/~cowan/XML/tagsoup/tagsoup.pdf
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