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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:21:27 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] xml
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> The </> suggestion has come up 8000 times in as many forums, to no avail.
>
> Supposedly, the excess verbosity makes it more readable/less error-prone.

to paraphrase, a sufficient amount of readable data is
as good as unreadable data.

- erik