Re: SD1 - Short End Tags from James Clark on 1997-05-17 (w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org from May 1997)

From: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 10:44:58 +0700
To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
Message-Id: <2.2.32.19970517034458.01435bc4@jclark.com>

> Proposal: For readability and convenience when dealing with database
> records, the element name within an end tag is optional. That is,
> </NAME> is same as </>.

We discussed this issue fully when we originally decided to leave this out
of XML.  I don't see anything to justify reopening the issue.

James

Received on Saturday, 17 May 1997 00:00:42 UTC