Re: New FAQ: entities and NCRs

On Monday, July 4, 2005, 4:26:13 AM, Felix wrote:



FS> Hi Richard,

FS> Just a minor point about the FAQ:

FS> "A character entity. This is a very different animal. All should be
FS> predefined in the markup language definition."

FS> Could be changed to

FS> "A character entity. This is a very different animal. All should be
FS> predefined in the markup language definition as XML DTD entity  
FS> declarations"

FS> I'm not happy with that wording,

Nor I. How about:

"A character entity. This is a very different animal. All should be
defined in document instance (internal DTD subset). Relying on the
markup language definition (external DTD subset) is fragile, as fetching
it is optional.."

FS>  but I would like to express that
FS> character entities rely on the XML DTD mechanism for general entities,
FS> which is e.g. not available in RELAX NG.

The DTD mechanism is unaffected by the use of RelaxNG or W3C XML Schema
validation.


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 W3C Graphics Activity Lead