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Re: those predeclared entity refs

From: Dave Peterson <davep@acm.org>
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 08:47:03 -0500
Message-Id: <v01540b07af4e88a2913b@[199.222.74.239]>
To: bosak@atlantic-83.Eng.Sun.COM (Jon Bosak), w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
Cc: bosak@atlantic-83.Eng.Sun.COM 
At 9:30 AM 3/13/97, Jon Bosak wrote:

>                                                         &amp; occurs
>m times per instance.  Remember that XML is designed primarily for
>delivery; the typical delivery scenario is one in which there is no
>DTD at all.

Much as I hate to admit it, this is the one reason why one might wish
to prdefine some special-character entities rather than letting each
DTD designer define them--you'd *have* to read the DTD.  :-(

Dave Peterson
SGMLWorks!

davep@acm.org
Received on Friday, 14 March 1997 08:48:17 EST

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