- From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 20:09:36 -0400
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
Andrew Layman wrote: > > Peter Murray-Rust writes: > > >SD1 (short tags). This is trivial for parser writers, but ... error > >recovery for missing endtags in WF documents would be effectively error > >creation. > > The current language definition specifies that there is no tolerance for > missing end tags. If the document is missing an end tag, it is not a > well-formed document and simply cannot be processed. How do you determine at what point an end-tag was missed, though? You might not know until the end of the document. That makes the user's job of finding their mistake very difficult. Paul Prescod
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