Adopting XML: Tomorrow's Web

Strictly parsed: what does this mean for you? [1]

Documents which are not well-formed will not be rendered by an XML browser.

At all.

• Tags and attributes are case-sensitive;

• End tags cannot be omitted - every <p> must have a </p>.

• Tags must be correctly nested:
  <b><i>This won't work</b></i>

• Empty tags (those which don't enclose any content) must be marked with a trailing slash like this: <xx/>

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