Re: XML Draft Section 2.8

>I don't think that there is a system that is simpler than SGML which is also
>100% interoperable with SGML tools. Making all REs significant certainly
>wouldn't. Some SGML tools use them to format output to make it more human
>readable (and I like that!!!).

Do NOT say RE when you mean newline. That is the whole source of 
confusion here (the fact that people look upon them as one and the
same).

I think have all data be significant in all cases to be a great win:
especially for identity tranforms and parser validation (ie. validation
of parsers).

Received on Saturday, 16 November 1996 13:27:40 UTC