- From: Charles F. Goldfarb <Charles@SGMLsource.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 03:36:55 GMT
- To: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Cc: Michael Sperberg-McQueen <U35395@UICVM.UIC.EDU>, W3C SGML Working Group <w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org>
On Wed, 23 Oct 96 09:54:51 BST, "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>In particular, I think Tim is at least misleading to say 'the
>smokescreen about "it's the entity not the file" is just that'.
Actually, it's the storage object, not the entity, and it isn't a smokescreen.
The parser sees *everything* in the entity, but several entities can be stored
in a single storage object. The storage object can contain things that aren't in
any SGML entities.
None of this is new; FSIs are just a new formalism for something we've always
had. See notes 1 and 2 in clause 6.1 of ISO 8879. [295:2-8]
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