Re: not just ANY error

>Date:         Fri, 21 May 99 17:04:45 EDT
>From: Syd Bauman <SYD@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>

>I can not find any semantics for the terminal "ANY" as used in
>production 46 "contentspec". I presume it means the same as in ISO
>8879:

See the constraint Element Valid, after production 39 (element).

>Since the percent sign is not allowed in an entity declaration, it
>would be nice if &percent; were one of the magic entities that XML
>processors must recognize whether declared or not. I realize that it
>isn't the same level of requirement as the others (which are needed
>to escape markup that cannot appear in content, whereas percent sign
>is only prohibited in a certain context in the DTD -- and it is
>reasonable to assume that if you go to the trouble of learning how to
>write a DTD it's no big deal to learn to use &#x0025; or whatever),
>but nonetheless I think it's a good idea. (Of course, I'd also like
>to see &equals;, and perhaps even &lsqb; and &rsqb; as magic entities,
>too. :-)

Noted.  It's unlikely that the set of magic entities will change
anytime soon, but perhaps in XML 1.1 ...

-C. M. Sperberg-McQueen

Received on Wednesday, 26 May 1999 18:53:31 UTC