Re: [xml-dev] Generic XML Tag Closer (GXTC)

• From: James Fuller <jim.fuller@...>
• To: Melvin Chin <mc@...>
• Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:47:24 +0200

Melvin Chin wrote:
> May I seek some opinions on this topic/proposal?
> 
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> To extend XML spec just a little to permit use of "</>" (GXTC)
> to be placed wherever it is permitted in the current XML spec
> to place a closing tag.  The semantics will be to effect a
> closing of the nearest open tag before the position of GXTC.
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wondering what benefit to this other then some syntatic human orientated 
sugar ?

u know extending the XML spec to do this would have a pretty serious 
impact on other things such as XSLT, XPATH, etc...so its highly unlikely!

as a sidenote: have you checked out http://www.lmnl.net, its a good 
example of taking what is existing and achieving something useful.

gl, Jim Fuller