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SHORTTAG
At 06:48 PM 9/10/96 +0100, Martin Bryan wrote:
>13.5 - SHORTTAG
>SHORTTAG YES is required to allow attribute values to be entered without
>literals (and without attribute name and value indicators) but XML should
>forbid the other options SHORTTAG currently permits. (In the next version of
>SGML these two roles of SHORTTAG will be clearly distinguished.)
The big problem here is the TEI, which makes heavy use of the minimized
attribute formulation. But supporting SHORTTAG flies in the face of our
design goal of being able to do useful processing of XML docs without having
the DTD. The things that are TEI-encoded are already in SGML and
thus probably aren't crying out for XML - I suspect that following the advent
of XML, there will be a pretty neat & tidy XML-compliant TEI subset (right,
Michael and Lou?).
I think all forms of SHORTTAG complicate parsing, don't add enough, and
should be dropped in XML.
Cheers, Tim Bray
tbray@textuality.com http://www.textuality.com/ +1-604-488-1167
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