Re: Empty elements (and processing without a DTD)

• To: Charles@sgmlsource.com, w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
• Subject: Re: Empty elements (and processing without a DTD)
• From: Martin Bryan <mtbryan@sgml.u-net.com>
• Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 06:44:42 +0100
• From w3c-sgml-wg-request@www10.w3.org Fri Sep 13 01: 54:28 1996

At 10:17 AM 12/9/96 +0100, Charles F. Goldfarb wrote:

>3. Declared content types (CDATA, etc.) that affect parsing would be an
optional
>feature (which XML, of course, would not use).

Charles - EMPTY is a declared content type - did you mean "Other declared
content types" or that XML should not use EMPTY as well?

XML could decide to retain CDATA and RCDATA to provide a method for entering
large blocks of SGML markup (without any end-tags not starting with <) if
it decides to abandon marked sections, e.g.

<!ELEMENT markup   - - RCDATA >

The Devil's Advocate
Martin Bryan
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