The need to close tags has been a pretty low grumble about XML. It really doesn't matter. Especially with compression. XML got a bad rap because SOAP & enterpr

The need to close tags has been a pretty low grumble about XML. It really doesn't matter. Especially with compression. XML got a bad rap because SOAP & enterprise built nightmarish systems. It's possible to do very bad things with any kind of data interchange system, which, contrary to this post, I would say XML is & does fine at.