- From: Eve L. Maler <elm@arbortext.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 10:12:13 -0400
- To: Charles@sgmlsource.com, Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Cc: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
At 04:49 AM 10/10/96 GMT, Charles F. Goldfarb wrote:
>Actually, Tim, I was supporting your position. The keyword SDATA in the ISO
>character entity set is unnecessary because the replacement text is a symbolic
>string. (My original intention was that a system would use an equivalent entity
>set in which the replacement text was real system data.)
The [xxxxxx] replacement text "templates" have been widely implemented
to produce the desired glyphs. But this doesn't mean they're not system
data, does it? It's still essentially a "processing instruction that
returns data" (clause 8). Regular internal text entities aren't
supposed to have this property.
Eve
Received on Thursday, 10 October 1996 10:11:11 UTC