- From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 14:26:11 -0400 (EDT)
- To: ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson)
- Cc: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
> > Since they aren't (can't be) automatically substituted in, and we have > XML-LINK, why not get rid of them altogether? Aren't they redundant? I asked that about 6 months ago. Then I decided that entities were important for giving an internal name to external data objects. This seemed vaguely important for maintaining SGML's concept of an "entity manager". The entity manager could, for instance, do PUBID substitutions or even SYSID substitutions. Now, however, hypertext links seem to bypass entities (and thus PUBID substitution). I think that that may be a mistake. Even if we must invent a syntax for putting public ID's "inline", we should be consistent in our referencing of external resources. Paul Prescod
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