- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 07:49:06 +0000 (UTC)
On Mon, 18 May 2009, Brett Zamir wrote: > > Section 10.1, "Writing XHTML documents" observes: "According to the XML > specification, XML processors are not guaranteed to process the external > DTD subset referenced in the DOCTYPE." > > While this is true, since no doubt the majority of web browsers are > already able to process external stylesheets or scripts, might the very > useful feature of external entity files, be employed by XHTML 5 as a > stricter subset of XML (similar to how XML Namespaces re-annexed the > colon character) in order to allow this useful feature to work for XHTML > (to have access to HTML entities or other useful entities for one, as > well as enable a poor man's localization, etc.)? While there are arguments on both sides of whether this is a good idea or not, I think the more important concern in this case is whether we can extend XML in this way. I think in practice we should leave this up to the XML specs and their successors. I don't think it would be appropriate for us to profile the XML spec in this way. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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