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Re: A17: keep or drop entities?

From: Charles F. Goldfarb <Charles@SGMLsource.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 04:48:59 GMT
To: "Christopher R. Maden" <crm@ebt.com>
Cc: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
Message-ID: <32667b39.4553502@mail.alink.net>
On Wed, 9 Oct 1996 14:11:45 GMT, "Christopher R. Maden" <crm@ebt.com> wrote:

>
>I'm surprised Gavin hasn't posted about this yet.  At lunch the other
>day, he had the brilliant notion of defining the Unicode hex character
>references not as CDATA entities but as FUNCHARs of the form
>&#Uxxxxxxxx; where xxxxxxxx is the hex representation of the Unicode
>code point.

That is very close to the scheme that WG8 has proposed for SGML97. See N1855 at
my web site.
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