RE: Recommendation: re-raise entity issue

I wonder how we could convince the XML Schema group it is in their own best
interests and will speed the adoption of their technology to provide a
non-DTD mechanism for defining character entities?

Jim
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joseph Reagle [mailto:reagle@w3.org] 
> Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 12:18 PM
> To: Steven Pemberton
> Cc: public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org; w3c-html-wg@w3.org
> Subject: Recommendation: re-raise entity issue
> 
> 
> 
> As you know, I've been chasing the thread of what exactly 
> happened to the 
> "character entities without DTDs" issue as documented in [1]. 
> When I asked 
> the XML Core WG about it recently, Paul Grosso responded "I 
> am aware of no 
> currently open task on the XML Core WG's task list associated 
> with XML 2.0.  
> There are therefore no associated dates." [2]
> 
> It's certainly a difficult technical issue, but I know sometimes the 
> emergent tendency is for the problem to become obfuscated in 
> bureaucracy 
> rather than keeping it clearly identified as an open but 
> difficult issue on 
> *some* plate somewhere that occasionally gets reconsidered or 
> resourced. (I 
> like that about the TAG issues.) Consequently, the only thing I can 
> recommend in this case is to re-raise the issue with Core and 
> ask that it 
> explicitly be added to [3] -- as an active or future task -- 
> with an offer 
> to help when the time comes along.
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/2003/03/rdf-in-xml.html#sec-Deliverables
> [2] 
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf/200
3Jul/0015
[3] http://www.w3.org/XML/Group/Core

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