Re: sgml-omittag, sgml-shorttag, ...

Steinar Bang <[email protected]> Tue, 03 Apr 2007 07:33:54 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.psgml.user
Organization Probably a good idea
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>>>> Jochen Hayek <[email protected]>:

> What I meant in my own words is the ability to leave out the end tag
> and end the start tag with "/>".

> And I think, that is possible with SGML and XML under certain
> circumstances.

It's possible for XML for all tags that are allowed empty content
(<sometag/> is equivalent to <sometag></sometag>).

It's not possible in SGML.  Ie. the "/>" construct is not allowed in
SGML. 

What _is_ possible in SGML, is to have an element that is just the
starttag.  Eg. <br> in HTML.


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