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You didn't love the strict and unhelpful generic XML exception you got when you accidentally forgot to close a tag?

I thought the whole point of XML tags coming in named pairs was so you could be helpfully told which tag wasn't closed?

XHTML was a move by Big CMS to make edit-and-FTP error prone. Before that you rarely had to care whether the tag was closed.

Is this a joke? I genuinely can't tell.

Don't blame bad tools on the language.