- From: Oliver Becker <obecker@informatik.hu-berlin.de>
- Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2003 11:09:48 +0100 (MET)
- To: "Kay, Michael" <Michael.Kay@softwareag.com>
- Cc: public-qt-comments@w3.org
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Kay, Michael wrote: > I don't know why the decision was made this way, but since the XML output > method does allow the creation of external general parsed entities, in which > the first node can be a text node, I think it would be unwise to change the > default at this stage. I seems to be quite arbitrarily to infer the HTML method from a <html> element, but not to infer the text method from pure text ... The user can always specify an output method, so producing external entities is still possible. However, it would break backwards compatibility, and that is probably the main obstacle. Best, Oliver Becker
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