- From: David G. Durand <dgd@cs.bu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 22:53:18 -0400
- To: W3C SGML Working Group <w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org>
At 1:18 PM 10/17/96, Michael Sperberg-McQueen wrote: >On 23 October 1996, the ERB will vote to decide the following >question. A straw poll indicates the ERB is leaning to leaving this >question to the implementors. > >C.2 should XML prescribe the use of an ENTITY-END character as the >canonical method of handling entity boundaries, as a way of >simplifying exposition and implementation (6.2.2)? I don't see suggestions for kludgey implementations of a feature as easing either exposition or implementation. If we simply disallow lexing of entity references between unescaped < and > characters, we can solve all the Ee problems. An implementation then must be able to resolve entities when an attribute value is examined. Clean, and I think it's even easy to do with LEX. I'd rather not mention the Ee strategy, and certainly would not require it. -- David _________________________________________ David Durand dgd@cs.bu.edu \ david@dynamicDiagrams.com Boston University Computer Science \ Sr. Analyst http://www.cs.bu.edu/students/grads/dgd/ \ Dynamic Diagrams --------------------------------------------\ http://dynamicDiagrams.com/ MAPA: mapping for the WWW \__________________________ http://www.dynamicdiagrams.com/services_map_main.html
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