Re: XHTML (was: Chelume)

Caleb Hines scripsit:

> BTW, from a grammatical point of view, there is no reason why all closing
> tags couldn't just be written like </> or something similar.
Indeed, that is an SGML feature called "end-tag minimization", but it
never made it into any HTML browsers that I know of, and isn't supported
by XML.  It saves space and keystrokes, but hurts error recovery and
readability.

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