Re: Representation of strings and characters in XML version of ixml

• From: Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>
• Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2021 16:09:16 +0000
• To: "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" <cmsmcq@blackmesatech.com>, "Liam R. E. Quin" <liam@fromoldbooks.org>
• Cc: "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" <cmsmcq@blackmesatech.com>, ixml <public-ixml@w3.org>
• Message-Id: <1640621282890.2940974534.2950170056@cwi.nl>

On Saturday 25 December 2021 17:38:19 (+01:00), C. M. Sperberg-McQueen wrote:

> The more I think about it, the more I think that preserving
> the distinction between dstring and sstring is just a relic of the
> time when the design wanted to preserve the accidentals of the
> ixml grammar, and is at best misleading. So I now lean towards
> “let us mark them both as @string”.

Another question then: why do we preserve the comments in the XML?

Steven

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