Simple: If you don't have closing tags, it's no XML Document. Why should there be any XML Tool that recognizes such a proprietary Non-XML-format? SCNR.

How should such a Tool know when to put the end-tags? It would need to recognize a DTD, but even that can't make sure the structure is interpeted as intended.

So if you want to use XML, use XML.

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