Marked Sections

• To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
• Subject: Marked Sections
• From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
• Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 13:13:35 -0700
• From w3c-sgml-wg-request@www10.w3.org Wed Sep 11 16: 10:25 1996

At 06:48 PM 9/10/96 +0100, Martin Bryan wrote:

>10.4
>Marked sections are useful in DTDs (a la HTML and TEI) but it might be valid
>to ban them within transmitted document instances conforming to XML. (XML
>should really be for the transmission of version independent documents.
>RCDATA should have its entities resolved before tranmission and with CDATA
>should have any embedded markup delimiters replaced by character references.)

There's been no discussion of this, and early voting results do not show a
trend.  Marked sections clearly complicate parser construction, and I don't
think they are useful enough to make up for this and get into XML.

I think if you need this kind of sophistication, you should use Real SGML.

Cheers, Tim Bray
tbray@textuality.com http://www.textuality.com/ +1-604-488-1167

• Re: Marked Sections
• From: Charles@SGMLsource.com (Charles F. Goldfarb)
• Re: Marked Sections
• From: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>

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