>Another problem with the /> NET trick is that it's *still impossible >for a structure-controlled application to create a parseable >instance from ESIS*. This is one of the more serious problems >with ISO 8879 from a tool-writer's standpoint; this is an issue >that XML *must* address for it to satisfy design goal #9: >"XML documents shall be easy to create." While this *is* an important point, one could just as easily say that ESIS is poorly designed: it doesn;' preserve imformation regarding empty elements, or entity boundaries, for example. Not all systems need such information, but many do.Received on Thursday, 31 October 1996 09:10:27 EST
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