- From: Jon Bosak <bosak@atlantic-83.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 19:07:25 -0800
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
- cc: bosak@atlantic-83.Eng.Sun.COM
(I sent this earlier but misaddressed it.) [Paul Grosso:] | When this was brought up at Tuesday's SGML Open Technical Committee | meeting, Jon suggested I post this despite the fact that this issue | was decided once (and despite the fact that Jon appeared to disagree | with me on this). Actually, I wasn't so much disagreeing as trying to represent what I seemed to recall as the reason we didn't allow "- -" in element declarations: pure Occam's Razor -- since we don't allow minimization, that syntax is unnecessary. If I understand Paul correctly, he's arguing that conforming XML applications should ignore the omitted tag minimizations without getting sick on them, so that "O O" (for example) would just be ignored. This would make it easier, presumably, to grandfather existing SGML DTDs and maintain single versions that would work for both SGML and XML applications. I am made uneasy by the thought that a legal DTD would then be stating specifically something that would not be true in XML, namely that certain omissions were allowed when, in fact, they would not be. But I'm willing at least to entertain the argument that this tradeoff makes DTD maintenance a lot easier. Jon
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