[thelist] Office 2003, XML, and CMS

Sun Aug 24 10:48:43 CDT 2003

Burhan Khalid wrote:
>><article Type=33>
>>  <title>News Flash: Maple Leafs won the Stanley Cup!</title>
>>   <summary>After an overwhelmingly-dominant season, the Maple Leafs have
>>finally brought Lord Stanley home!</summary>
>>   <author>GravyFace</author>
>>   <body>blah blah blah <emphasis id=1>BLAH!</emphasis>. blah blah <emphasis
>>id=2>BLAAAAAH!</emphasis></body>
>></article id=555>
> 
> I'm assuming you mean </article Type="33">

Either way it's invalid XML - you can't have attributes in a closing 
tag. Because XML has to be well formed it must always be properly 
nested, so when the </article> tag is reached it can logically only 
belong to the <article Type="33"> opening tag (note that quotes around 
attributes are also mandatory in XML). Thus there is no need to 
duplicate attributes in the end tag, and in fact doing so will 
invalidate the XML and cause any compliant parser to stop with an error 
message.

Cheers,

Simon Willison