On Tue, 22 Oct 1996 12:39:17 -0400, gtn@ebt.com (Gavin Nicol) wrote: >As a note on undelcared entities. I proposed a while back on this >list that XML processors provide a fallback resolution mechanism: >namely that of trying to find an entity of the same same within >a catalog etc., and if found, treat it as being declared. > >My prime motivation is that with this mechanism, it is easy to >use XML within realtime systems, and without it, close to >impossible. > >It also seems to be intuitively correct. > If the entity is an SGML text entity, the declaration *must* be in the document or else different systems will produce a different ESIS from the same document. -- Charles F. Goldfarb * Information Management Consulting * +1(408)867-5553 13075 Paramount Drive * Saratoga CA 95070 * USA International Standards Editor * ISO 8879 SGML * ISO/IEC 10744 HyTime Prentice-Hall Series Editor * CFG Series on Open Information Management --Received on Thursday, 24 October 1996 23:36:39 EDT
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