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Re: B.10 Empty elements?

From: Bill Smith <bill.smith@Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 12:47:52 -0700 (PDT)
To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
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Tim Bray wrote:

> At 10:57 AM 10/15/96 -0700, Bill Smith wrote:
> 
> ><e> is my strong preference but only if we specify that the required markup 
> >declarations be part of the document instance.
> 
> This would normally be the case when there was no DTD... but you'd insist that 
> even if there was, they be in the subset, not the DTD itself? -Tim

If there's another mechanism that doesn't require reference to some external 
object that's fine with me. If we require complex entity management in XML 1.0 
we're lost. I place locating arbitrary (partial) DTDs over the Web in the too 
complex category.

We can and should add this to subsequent versions.
Received on Tuesday, 15 October 1996 15:48:13 EDT

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