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Re: SDATA, again

From: Dave Peterson <davep@acm.org>
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 17:47:05 -0500
Message-Id: <v01540b1aaed2447ee512@[207.60.9.81]>
To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org 
Jon recently wrote:

>The technical intricacies are over my head, but the procedural
>situation is pretty simple: the ERB examined this subject in great
>detail and came to the conclusion that the SDATA mechanism as it
>stands in 8879 is not specified well enough to be usable and that we
>are not the right group to provide an optimum replacement.  Our plan
>is to include SDATA on a list of items that we urgently wish ISO to
>consider and to include it in XML when ISO has fixed it.

I.e., in the revision, not in any earlier TC.  (Personal opinion.)


Dave Peterson
SGMLWorks!

davep@acm.org
Received on Monday, 9 December 1996 17:49:19 EST

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