Character Entities: An XML Core WG View

In light of ongoing discussions relating to "character entities"
including suggestions that a future version of XML should be
augmented to include some new syntax to accommodate them, the
XML Core Working Group has developed a public statement describing 
the current consensus within the WG on certain aspects of this topic.

This message serves to announce this public document:
  Character Entities: An XML Core WG View
  dated 2002 October 23
  at http://www.w3.org/XML/Core/2002/10/charents-20021023

Paul Grosso, Co-chair, XML Core WG