Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Warp wrote:

> >   I never understood why the closing tag must be named. What's the point?

> A tiny increase in the ability to handle or at least detect malformed XML.

  Why should a program be able to try to guess what a malformed XML file
might be trying to say? There's no way of unambiguously tell what the
properly-formatted version would have looked like.

  And if the XML file is malformed, it means that a person wrote it by hand.
Wouldn't it be better to directly tell the person that there's a mistake in
the file, rather than try to hide it, and possibly interpret it wrongly?

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                                                          - Warp

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