- From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 00:04:30 -0400
- To: Charles@sgmlsource.com
- CC: ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk, U35395@UICVM.UIC.EDU, w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
>>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] Thank you Charles. This is a good clarification and is the way I understand things (the best kind of clarification is one that agrees with your position ;-)). I should note that a *further* reason for both FSI's and MIME-based storage managers is that email will potentially be an important delivery mechanism for XML. Both FSI's and MIME are perfectly suited for this.
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