- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 09:51:18 -0800
- To: W3C SGML Working Group <w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org>
Sign me up as also not getting what Charles is driving at here. When I use text entities, it has almost always been in support of authoring, with a hub document along the lines of <spec> ... <body> &intro; &documents; &elements; &entities; ... With the entities so named typically being subject to constant revision; so it would be surprising for the to document stay unchanged between two runs of the parser; in fact, since the parser is mostly used for validation and typesetting, you usually run it *because* you've been changing entities. I don't *think* this practice is exotic and weird... like Eve, I feel like I'm missing something obvious. In case it's not obvious, the ERB (and I think this group) do *not* think that in general the SGML external text entity semantics are obviously correct for delivery of distributed network documents; the most recent change in the spec language was precisely to avoid making browsers deal with them. But it's also not obvious that the semantics are not correct.
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