- From: Martin Bryan <mtbryan@sgml.u-net.com>
- Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 08:39:43 +0000
- To: DAVEP@acm.org, tbray@textuality.com
- Cc: W3C-SGML-WG@w3.org
Dave Peterson wrote: >I can't speak for Charles, but I interpret that part of 8879 to mean that >a text entity referenced twice in the same document should give the same >replacement text for both references during the same parse. This is a good interpretation, but also one of the weaknesses of SGML. You should see what happens if you can change the subtrees within a document. This can lead to some really powerful applications. (Not that I'm advocating this for XML, though I will be for SGML97!) ---- Martin Bryan, The SGML Centre, Churchdown, Glos. GL3 2PU, UK Phone/Fax: +44 1452 714029 WWW home page: http://www.u-net.com/~sgml/
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