Re: Parameter Entities

Joe English <jenglish@crl.com> wrote:
> I would hypothesize that the smaller, simpler applications --
> the ones we expect CS majors to be able to write in a week --
> will for the most part not read the DTD at all.

I agree.  And won't cope with entities or EMPTY elements (if they
use the <e> syntax), and will probably treat <! as starting a comment
up to the next >, and same for <?...>.

And that will be just fine for most uses.

Lee

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Received on Thursday, 7 November 1996 00:40:02 UTC