Re: Why do XML and OFX have subtle differences?

Tim Bray (tbray@textuality.com)
Sat, 12 Jul 1997 09:25:56 -0700

At 12:19 AM 12/07/97 -0400, Giovanni Flammia wrote:
>I wonder why Open Financial Exchange (OFX) and XML have at least one
>subtle difference

OFX predates XML, is based on SGML, and uses a form of minimization
called end-tag omission that was deliberately left out of XML. A
few months ago, I had heard that the OFX people were thinking seriously
about fixing this so as to be XML-compliant. -T.