Re: those predeclared entity refs from Jon Bosak on 1997-03-13 (w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org from March 1997)

From: Jon Bosak <bosak@atlantic-83.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 09:37:26 -0800
To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
CC: bosak@atlantic-83.Eng.Sun.COM
Message-Id: <199703131737.JAA07144@boethius.eng.sun.com>

[John Lavagnino:]

| I'd suggest following Jon's proposal to drop the five predeclared
| entity references, but also to try and work declarations of these (and
| perhaps others) into lots of sample XML files as they're made
| available, to condition the world into considering those a "standard"
| part of an XML DTD.  In practice, that sort of thing is almost as good
| as having it as part of the language definition.

Why bother?  If "&amp;" is a magic string (as Paul Prescod has pointed
out, and I agree with him), why urge it over the equally magic string
"&#x26;"?  If I don't speak English, the second is as easy to remember
as the first, and it has the very significant advantage that I can
find out what it means my looking it up in the Unicode table.

Jon

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