Why does XML have such verbose closing tags? [closed]

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Yes, this probably shouldn't bug me.

But it does!!

Why does XML have such verbose closing tags? Not only does it make documents uglier for humans, it needlessly introduces the risk of mismatched (or misspelled!) opening and closing tags.

Even if we wanted to require closing tags, why do we need to include the name of the opening tag inside the closing tag? There is never any ambiguity in XML, because innermost tags must be closed before closing outer tags!

For example:


    Hello, world!

...is so much more verbose than:


    Hello, world!

And it doesn't resolve any ambiguity, either for humans or for computers.

Does anyone know what the rationale is for this rule? What risks are avoided by disallowing empty closing tags?

xml verbosity

задан ClosureCowboy 4 February 2011 в 07:10

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