- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 15:59:33 +0000 (UTC)
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Henri Sivonen wrote: > > > > > > Since you seem to envision not actually having any DTD to speak of, > > > where do you see named entity references fitting into the picture? > > > > If the author wants entities, then the (otherwise mostly empty) DTD > > would be the right place for them. > > It is the right place only in a private system. That is, if the author > uses a tool that parses the DTD and reserializes the document either as > DTDless XML or as text/html soup for delivery over the public network. Yes; I meant a hypothetical WHATWG DTD. > I think user agents should not be required to use XML processors that > parse the DTD. Also, authors should not be given the impression that > entities (other than the 5 predefined ones) are suitable for use on the > Web when the content is parsed as XML. (I consider the inclusion of the > HTML 4 entities in the XHTML DTDs as a serious spec bug.) Note that UAs have had to implement SGML catalogs that detect the XHTML (and MathML) FPIs and automatically use cut-down DTDs that only contain entities to handle those exact cases. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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