Hey,

Although the tag name issue is a valid point, it has nothing to do with my
original email. So please start a separate discussion rather then hijacking
this thread.

Cheers

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Jeroen De Dauw
http://blog.bn2vs.com
Don't panic. Don't be evil.
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On 13 January 2011 03:19, Daniel Friesen <[email protected]> wrote:

> <tag name>...</tag name>
> Definitely sounds like something we shouldn't support. That kind of
> thing just screams "you're at the mercy of whatever developer in the
> future decides to change the parser to 'actually' parse out xml tags
> with more xml or html-like parsing, instead of simply doing a search and
> replace based on a list of tag names".
> Not to mention it's confusing and counterintuitive in articles
> themselves. What if the <display> tag actually supported a map argument?
> <display map foo> gets treated as a <display map> tag, but <display foo
> map> gets properly treated as a <display> tag? bleeeeech... And I have
> to feel sorry for the users that actually understand any small level of
> xml or html that are looking at <display map> in a random page and
> reading that as a tag with the tagName 'display'.
>
> ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]
>
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