Norman Gray wrote at 07/21/2011 10:54 AM:
However when I asserted that all of the angle-brackets in XML syntax, and all of the end-tags, are
distracting, the interesting rejoinder was: "what end tags? oh, those end tags!" -- that
is, the same rejoinder ("what brackets!?") that folk make to the claim that lisp-like
syntaxes have too many parentheses.
I think the difference is that even XML and other W3C standards people
realize that XML syntax quickly gets ridiculous.
http://relaxng.org/compact-tutorial-20030326.html
I did some work for an SGML company before XML was started, and SGML
syntax made reasonable sense for document markup at the time (which is
why Berners-Lee made HTML look like it). But then XML people decided to
adapt SGML for all data interchange, and we'll be stuck with that for a
while.
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