<birth> <life> </birth> <childhood> <trauma> </childhood> <adolescence> <angst> </adolescence> <adulthood> <job> <relationship> <marriage> <baby> </job> <midlifecrisis> </marriage> </relationship> </midlifecrisis> </angst> </adulthood> </life> <coffin>
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It’s nice that you have chosen an open <coffin> – I find it helps people with their own </ (IYKWIM, AITYD)
Also, I don’t think anyone can tell you your life is invalid, but your syntax stinks.
So what you’re saying is that real life doesn’t properly nest its tags.
It’s true, life is sloppily scripted. If it was a better author, it’d close that life tag during birth and open a new one right after.
I’d have put <birth> in the life header (what else goes in that header is probably dependent upon whose spec you are using) and then created an undefined <div> after </life> with an open <casket> tag. I don’t think there is any getting around the fact that <midlifecrisis> is an improperly nested tag… It breaks syntax by definition (check the css!)
It’s true! But a mid-life crisis is a messy, messy thing, and life is an HTML newbie with a geocities page.
“life is an HTML newbie with a geocities page”
*sigh* it explains so much about my lack of standards…
You didn’t close the coffin tag, so when I close it, all the above comments (plus mine) will be contained in your coffin.
Well, closing the coffin tag is a bit presumptive, isn’t it? It implies exhumation or undeath of some sort. At which case I’d add zombie, brains, and headshots.
I’m here to not give you shit. I liked the idea. Good job. =)
It’s the internet! This site is here to give people shit, you’re welcome to fling it back of course. But thank you.
I very much enjoyed this. This was a very entertaining post. And, well, true. Pretty much.
Nice, but it’s not well formed XML: no single root element and wrong nesting of elements. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML#Well-formedness_and_error-handling )
I think my favorite part of this post has become the debate over formatting sparked by sloppy mock HTML. Non-sarcastic statement!
I like how there’s a tag, but no *closing* of such, even after death. (‘scuse me, “)
Funny stuff, folks!
Oops….bad posting. Second try….
I like how there is a Trauma tag, but no closing, non-Trauma, even after death. Er, backslash-life.
Better?
“life is an HTML newbie with a geocities page.” That was the funniest thing I’ve heard/read all week. Thank you.
This was really cute.
The dude never said he was coding, he was describing life. That’d make a good poem
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