On Mon, 12 May 2008, Dean Edridge wrote: > Hi Ian, > > > According to the XML specification, XML processors are not guaranteed > > to process the external DTD subset referenced in the DOCTYPE. This > > means, for example, that using entities for characters in XHTML > > documents is unsafe (except for <, >, &, " and '). > > For interoperability, authors are advised to avoid optional features > > of XML. > > I thought I asked you last year if you could reword this. You did. And I will fix it when I get to your feedback, just like I fix anything else when I get to it. There are 2000+ e-mails still remaining in the list of things I have to fix, and I have recently been replying to e-mails from 2004 and 2005. This particular issue is a very low priority as it is purely editorial (by which I mean, it doesn't have any normative conformance criteria and therefore the spec would be implemented in exactly the same way whether the paragraph was there or not). > I know you get sick of me going on about this stuff; I'm sorry but I > just cant get involved and comment on other areas of the spec when > there's things like this that are wrong. If you can't get past a minor editorial issue (e.g. by pretending it is fixed while waiting for me to get to the issue), I'm afraid I can't really help you very much. I'm not prioritising minor editorial stuff like this over key interoperability issues like broken algorithms. Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'Received on Monday, 12 May 2008 20:39:26 GMT
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