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Re: Newlines in element content (i.e TABLES)

From: Charles F. Goldfarb <Charles@SGMLsource.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 00:47:51 GMT
To: lee@sq.com
Cc: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
Message-ID: <3249d1eb.11666039@mail.alink.net>
On Wed, 25 Sep 96 18:14:52 EDT, lee@sq.com wrote:

>
>Note that a parser without a DTD also can't use SHORTREF to interpret quotes.

An XML parser only has to know that the quotes (or brackets, or whatever)
delimite data. Only an SGML<->XML converter needs to know that they are really
short references.
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