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From: William H. Mitchell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 12:18 AM
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Subject: RE: [jug-discussion] I've always wondered... [element names in
closing tags in XML]
At 12:38 AM 2/22/03 -0700, Martin wrote:
My guess is to help
If you are concerned about size, compress it. The Zip classes use a compression
algorithm that assigns tokens to commonly occuring strings. The net result is
compression of a database represented in XML tends to give incredible compression
rates as it takes all of those long repeated tags and
At 12:38 AM 2/22/03 -0700, Martin wrote:
My guess is to help humans match the tags that may be pages apart.
A good editor should be able to handle that.
At 08:10 AM 2/22/03 -0700, Vincent wrote:
I would assume it would make it easier for the parser to find problems like:
a1b2c3//
So a tag is
I don't know much about XML so this might be a stupid question, but is
there a good reason that closing tags are required to have the element name?
That is, instead of blop10/blop couldn't it just be blop10/?
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I don't know much about XML so this might be a stupid question, but is
there a good reason that closing tags are required to have the
element name?
That is, instead of blop10/blop couldn't it just be blop10/?
My guess is to help humans match the tags that may be pages apart.
