- From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Sat, 02 Nov 1996 20:49:59 -0500
- To: Joe English <jenglish@crl.com>, w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
At 05:39 PM 11/2/96 -0800, Joe English wrote: >Don't forget: you also have to expand all the parameter >entity references, ... >Heaven help you if you're using something like >TEI, DocBook, or IBM ID Doc... >> The point of Eve's proposal is to avoid having to >> continue to maintain both versions. That to me >> _does_ "seem like that big a deal...". > >Point taken, but I think it will take more than just >allowing "- -" in the XML grammar to make this feasible. >I could live without AND groups, but parameter entities and >the ability to specify more than one associated element >type in <!ELEMENT ...> and <!ATTLIST ...> declarations are >essential. Often I find that even the DTD syntax is not powerful enough to express the particular semantics and element-context linkages I want to express elegantly (e.g. OOP-style "inheritance"). The solution may be to code in something entirely unlike DTDs (for instance one of the instance syntax languages we have discussed) and down-translate. Eve's suggestion would seem to allow ONE down-translation instead of two. Paul Prescod --- Boycott Shell Oil worldwide! http://www.web.apc.org/embargo/shell.htm "Shell is here on trial and it is as well that it is represented by counsel said to be holding a watching brief."..."The ecological war that the Company has waged in the Delta will be called to question sooner than later." -Ken Saro-Wiwa to the tribunal that later executed him. http://www.goldmanprize.org/goldman/ken.html
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