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

• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@...>
• To: "'James Fuller'" <jim.fuller@...>,"'Melvin Chin'" <mc@...>
• Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:57:10 +0100

> wondering what benefit to this other then some syntatic human 
> orientated sugar ?

Do you need any other?
> 
> 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!

It would have no impact at all on XSLT or XPath, since it only changes the
lexical representation of XML and not the data model.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/