- From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 23:53:00 -0400
- To: W3C SGML Working Group <w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org>
At 03:01 AM 9/15/96 -0400, Arjun Ray wrote: In any case, as a counterargument, could anyone demonstrate -- without >resorting to the known empty element problem -- how a GI on an endtag >actually simplifies parsing? Parsing, probably not. Error reporting and recovery? Probably. GI's in end tags also make Perl hacking easier. For instance, I could do a search and replace for <FOO>, </FOO> and replace it with <SECTION><FOO>, </FOO></SECTION> to "wrap" each FOO in a section. Otherwise I have to keep a stack and write some form of tree-based thing (or work on an ESIS which does the stack building for me). Paul Prescod
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