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

• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@...>
• To: "'James Fuller'" <jim.fuller@...>,"'David Carlisle'" <davidc@...>
• Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:47:26 +0100

> If such a change is so simple and has no impact on existing 
> software

You missed my earlier reply. Such a change has enormous impact, but not on
XSLT or XPath. For example it means that people with Pascal applications
(say) who are using a Pascal XML parser produced by a vendor who has gone
out of business would have to rewrite their applications to accept XML 1.x
documents that use the new syntax.

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