- From: Arjun Ray <aray@q2.net>
- Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 16:09:03 -0400 (EDT)
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
On Fri, 16 May 1997, Dave Hollander wrote: > I am shocked; there have been no postings about this proposal. 8 months ago, I was one of the few who argued for empty end-tags. The ERB decided otherwise. AIUI, the decision was cast as an exclusive choice, in the interest of avoiding option alternatives. So, basically it was empty end-tags either everywhere, period, or nowhere, period. Parenthetically, back then an argument that seemed to carry some weight was that relatively casual greppers (e.g. ad hoc perl scripts) would benefit from GIs in endtags. > I really like it if those building parsers have no problems with it. I can't imagine it would pose a problem. In fact, problems are likely to come from unexpected GIs in endtags (a class of "error" in WF actually created by the -lang spec!) But I agree, the lack of posts on this proposal (even to heap scorn on it:-)) is somewhat surprising. Arjun
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