- From: Michael Sperberg-McQueen <U35395@UICVM.UIC.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 22 May 97 18:31:27 CDT
- To: W3C SGML Working Group <w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org>
On Wed, 21 May 1997 14:05:36 -0400 (EDT) David Durand said: >At 11:38 AM -0700 5/18/97, Tim Bray wrote: >>A lot of people want to support addressing by char count, token >>count, or regexp, within #PCDATA (or [danger, Will Robinson!] mixed) >>content. <!-- lots of good stuff excised --> >Maybe token counting (with an explicit list of delimiters) is actually >the only safe thing. I believe so. And Martin Bryan has rightly pointed out that in our initial character set decisions we bought into that already. So: yes, addressing within elements, by token count. Do tags always / sometimes / never count as token boundaries? -CMSMcQ
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