At 10:45 PM 9/17/96 GMT, Charles F. Goldfarb wrote: >Unfortunately, the existing proposals for handling whitespace don't work (see >earlier postings from myself and James Clark). There are only two solutions that >do: >1. RE/RS handling a la SGML (or, preferably, a la the proposals for SGML97, >which simplify things considerably); or Could you post a reference for (or even better, summary of) the SGML97 proposals?; I would love nothing better than to dodge the RS/RE issue in XML in favor of a WG8-invented solution. Clearly, there is a near-consensus here that the SGML RS/RE rules are "too complicated" (the quotes signal my lack of interest in arguing about the correctness of this perception) for use in XML. I at least am very very VERY reluctant to give up mixed content and PI's to work around the RS/RE problem. In fact, this is the one area where, in order to produce something truly usable, some of us, I think, might be willing to live with being non-ISO-8879-compliant (ideally only for a while). If it's clear which way WG8 is going to go on this, it would be very helpful to know that. Cheers, Tim Bray tbray@textuality.com http://www.textuality.com/ +1-604-488-1167Received on Wednesday, 18 September 1996 12:32:41 EDT
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