- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 08:09:32 -0700
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
At 10:23 AM 20/06/97 -0500, David G. Durand wrote: >Let's relax compatibility with SGML and make PEs into straight text macros >rather than eliminating them. I think that this would be a win for users as >well, since the harders thing about learning PEs is that the string >substitution model is _not_ correct. Exact-a-mundo. There is nothing wrong in principle with having a macro-processor facility in markup declarations, and I certainly agree 100% with the people who lament the loss of PEs on these grounds. It's just that doing it in a way that's compatible with 8879's replacement rules is messy and complicated and hard to understand. Having said that, I can't at this point support simply dropping SGML compatibility on this issue (although it *would* solve the problem). WG8-folk on the list; are we the only ones who would like a radical simplification of the PE replacement rules, or is this another pending-for-the-subset item? How about another SGML Declaration option that says PEs are just string-substituted without regard for where they may be? -Tim
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