On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 12:24:46PM -0700, Tom Bradford wrote: > > That is, the terminating tag can be _either_ </> or </name>. I know that > > this is not true xml, but it can make for significantly shorter messages. > > > > Is this something that I can parse out-of-the-box with xerces-j? > > If it were, I'd be very surprised and disappointed. Disk space is > cheap, and parsers are free, Yeah, but bandwidth is not unlimited yet... Compression can help here. Take a look at e.g. zlib.
> the c++ programmers to actually spit out proper XML than this > bastardization of it. It will only help them in the end. This vaguely reminded me some SGML shortcut, or am I dreaming? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
