- From: David G. Durand <dgd@cs.bu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 17:34:04 -0400
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
At 11:48 AM 10/21/96, Gavin Nicol wrote: >> <!ENTITY auml "&u00E4;"><!-- auml = a umlaut (dec 228) --> > >Or perhaps: > >> <!ENTITY auml "&#u00E4;"><!-- auml = a umlaut (dec 228) --> Gavin omitted to mention that the nice thing about the function character solution is that SGML already folds the case, so we don't need to prescribe a case, whereas entity names are (and should remain) case sensitive. This would be a non-issue if we do the right thing and make things case sensitive (and define all keywords, etc. as lower case). But I expect that people are too used to their preferred case conventions for this to fly. -- David RE delenda est. I am not a number. I am an undefined character. _________________________________________ 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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