- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 11:46:52 -0700
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
At 11:56 AM 20/06/97 CDT, Michael Sperberg-McQueen wrote: > a powerful plea that says (No PE's == No DTD's) Sigh. My fallback position has always been, can we banish PE's from the internal subset? The idea is, even if PE's are agreed to be necessary for validating applications, I can see no good argument that a lightweight DTD-less WF doc reader should ever have to deal with them. As for the difficulty: I (and I think I'm not alone) am sensitive to issues of parser size. Processing PEs is not rocket science but will materially add to code bulk. Part of this code size is code that checks that the PE began and ended at a legal place [which code SERVES NO USEFUL PURPOSE FOR MAN OR BEAST] -T.
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