- From: Joe English <jenglish@crl.com>
- Date: Sat, 02 Nov 1996 15:36:41 -0800
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
"Eve L. Maler" <elm@arbortext.com> wrote: > In XML, we've tossed out OMITTAG. However, there's a question about > whether we allow the "omitted tag minimization" parameter in XML > element declarations. > > I feel we should, so that existing DTDs that provide these specifications > don't need to be maintained in two separate versions, one for SGML and > one for XML. [...] Given that the current XML draft doesn't support parameter entities, name groups for ELEMENT and ATTLIST declarations, AND groups, content models denoting mixed content where #PCDATA appears anywhere other than as the _first_ token in a repeatable OR group, inclusion and exclusion exceptions, and probably a few others, it looks like XML-SGML compatibility will be pretty much limited to document instances in any case. Since most SGML users will have to rewrite their DTDs to make them XML-able anyway, leaving out the omitted tag minimization parameter doesn't seem like that big a deal... --Joe English jenglish@crl.com
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