- From: Deborah A. Lapeyre <dlapeyre@mulberrytech.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 08:45:27 -0700 (PDT)
- To: Len Bullard <cbullard@HiWAAY.net>
- cc: John_Lavagnino@brown.edu, w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
1) I still prefer <e></e> and have seen no logical arguments to convince me otherwise. Yes, it makes it impossible to distinguish between events and lack of content. That is NOT a showstopper for me. 2) Failing that, ANY system that marks them, and is internally symetrical will do. By symetry, I mean that it starts and ends with the same character. I mean that <e/>, </>, <qwqwqwq>, and #r# are fine and "<e" is NOT. 3) Far last choice is the current SGML situation, which confuses new users, is hard to teach, and (stack or no stack) is not pretty to parse. An element is a container. Let all elements that start, end, even if that end is logically the same place. --Debbie Lapeyre ======================================================================= Deborah A. Lapeyre Phone: 301-231-6933 Mulberry Technologies, Inc. Fax: 301-231-6935 6010 Executive Blvd. Suite 608 E-mail: dlapeyre@mulberrytech.com Rockville, MD USA 20852 =======================================================================
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