On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Ian Hickson wrote: > On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Arjun Ray wrote: >> Ignoring for the moment that the reference to ISO 8879 in the XML spec >> isn't even normative (!) > you keep complaining that ISO 8879 _is_ a normative reference for > HTML, Pointing out that a normative reference should be taken seriously is complaining? > and when the W3C stop using it as such in its other specs, you are > surprised by this too! :-) No, that was aimed at the fact that a lot of people (still) think that XML has a normative reference to SGML. [Thus, inter alia, an SGML declaration (such as would be needed by a system like SP) is not a part of XML at all.] ArjunReceived on Saturday, 30 June 2001 22:59:23 GMT
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