Re: [Michael[tm] Smith] Transition Request: FPWD of "Public Identifiers for entity resolution in XHTML"

Henry S. Thompson scripsit:

> Should we review?

I don't see any reason to do so.  This draft just adds one to the
existing list of magic public identifiers that XHTML parsers are supposed
to treat specially.  As far as I can tell, the behavior specified at
<http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/the-xhtml-syntax.html#parsing-xhtml-documents>,
though unusual, is perfectly conformant to the XML Recommendation:

    This specification provides the following additional information
    that user agents should use when retrieving an external entity:
    the public identifiers given in the following list all correspond
    to the URL given by this link. (This URL is a DTD containing
    the entity reference declarations for the names listed in
    the named character references section.)  [The URL begins
    "data:application/xml-dtd;base64,".]

    [list snipped]

    Furthermore, user agents should attempt to retrieve the above
    external entity's content when one of the above public identifiers
    is used, and should not attempt to retrieve any other external
    entity's content.

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