I am strongly supporting SD1 - Short End Tags, primarily with respect to the useage of XML to exchange databases. In some examples from my desk - we are exchanging data for engine management system - I was saving 40% size of the instance by simply shorten the end tags. Making Perl hackerīs life easier is ok. But if such kind of programs want meet the requirements of error reporting (WF errors) they still must track the element names. There was a proposal to allow Short End Tags in Elements with PCDATA only. I think this is hard to keep sure. Therefor, I hereby propose, that Short End Tags are allowed in valid XML-Documents. In this case, it causes no more effort to read the document, since there is a validating parser. On the other hand, the database people need a Database scheme, so that they will work with valid XML-document primarily. Regards/Mit freundlichen Gruessen ======================================================================== ====== Bernhard Weichel Phone: (49) 711 811 8322 Robert Bosch GmbH Fax: (49) 711 811 8262 Dept. K3/EES4 eMail: bernhard.weichel@pcm.bosch.de P.O. Box 30 02 40 D-70442 Stuttgart Germany
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