- From: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 15:13:58 +0000
- To: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Cc: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
At 06:54 24/10/96 +0000, Tim Bray wrote: >At 11:34 AM 24/10/96 +0000, James Clark wrote: >>At 23:57 23/10/96 +0000, Tim Bray wrote: >>>1. external text entities are a basic necessity for authoring ... > >>I would like to point that at least one person on the ERB (me) passionately >>believes that this viewpoint is totally misguided... >>... it is certainly possible to build a fine authoring >>environment without any use of external text entities. > >James is correct; it is certainly possible to do this. But SGML provides >a built-in, standard, nonproprietary way to go about it. The way I sell >SGML in the corporate world is: > >SGML gives you: > 1. a way to model the structure of your documents, and > 2. a way to control the authoring so they come out right, and > 3. a way to modularize documents for re-use and management, and > 4. ALL OF THIS IS STANDARDIZED AND NON-PROPRIETARY > >It seems to me that if XML loses text entities, then #4 no longer applies >to #3. I think you can get 3 and 4 without external text entities by using transclusion via link semantics, which are going to be standardized in a later phase of XML. James
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