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Re: XML and required DTDs

From: Charles F. Goldfarb <Charles@SGMLsource.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 01:02:01 GMT
To: "Steven J. DeRose" <sjd@ebt.com>
Cc: Martin Bryan <mtbryan@sgml.u-net.com>, w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
Message-ID: <323dee3c.23027901@mail.alink.net>
On Mon, 16 Sep 1996 16:52:44 -0400, "Steven J. DeRose" <sjd@ebt.com> wrote:

>The only things blocking you from parsing one-entity minimal SGML document
>without a DTD are:
>
>   a) Declared content (CDATA/RCDATA/EMPTY elements)
>   b) The RE-ignoring rules.
>
Exactly! Just eliminate declared content and mixed content and you've solved the
problem. We don't need those constructs for XML, they are just forms of markup
minimization parading under other names.
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