SGML DTDS allowed tag minimizations with OMITTAG
(the only schema in town)
You could state (on a per element basis):
- If the start tag could be omitted
- If the end tag could be omitted
- You could omit a tag if
The parser could figure out from the content model/context
what the next tag had to be
If the content model were:
section (title, para+, subsection*)
Both the start and end tags for <title> could be made omissible