- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 17 Sep 96 03:51:27 BST
- To: Charles@SGMLsource.com
- Cc: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
Charles writes: > > 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. That analysis is correct, but it would in my view none-the-less be a mistake to go down that road. It would grandfather out a huge percentage of existing documents, and require huge amounts of obfuscatory markup, e.g. <p><vc>The</vc><ship>Gretel</ship><vc>lost to</vc><ship>Constitution </ship><vc>in</vc><date>1966</date><vc>.</vc></p> [vc for 'vanilla content'] Or are you assuming we are allowing tag minimisation after all? I thought it was out the door . . . ht [apologies to Americas' Cup mavens, I know the second name and date are probably wrong]
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