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Re:XML for databases: a dead idea by mnarayan01 on Tuesday January 15, 2013 @01:00PM (#5061638)
God knows something to ease the closing tag verbosity would make XML at least twice as useable. I wonder if there's anything in the grammar that would conflict with </> as a closing tag? I'm almost tempted to muck with libxml and add it for personal use.
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Re:XML for databases: a dead idea by fusiongyro on Tuesday January 15, 2013 @01:19PM (#5061777)
A personal dialect of XML? Wouldn't you be better off making your own grammar from scratch?
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Re:XML for databases: a dead idea by mnarayan01 on Tuesday January 15, 2013 @02:00PM (#5062119)
If I installed it at the system level, then anything that linked against libxml/libxml2 would have the enhancement. Which is also the biggest reason I'm not going to do it...I'd invariably end up distributing XML with the sugarfied close tag.
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