minimisation
Synonym: synonym
SGML allows for 'predictable' markup to be omitted if required (e.g. when it is obvious where an end-tag should be). Examples are SHORTAG, OMITTAG, SHORTREF, etc. They were introduced to save keystrokes for manually produced documents, but may people (including me) belive that minimisation causes many more problems than it solves, including making SGML much more unfriendly. Removing all minimisation yields normalised documents.