- From: Martin Bryan <mtbryan@sgml.u-net.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 17:06:07 +0100
- To: Charles@sgmlsource.com, lee@sq.com
- Cc: papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca, w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
Charles F. Goldfarb wrote: >> 1. No need to access a DTD to determine if an element is mixed content. >>> 2. All REs and RSs are ignored -- full stop! (See, I'm internationalized :-) >>> 3. Really easy parsing. >>> 4. Much simpler to explain. And later >>Does "string concatenation" work? >><P> >> "this is line one " >> "this is line two " >> "this is line three" >></P> > >Yes. but he still fails to suggest how to avoid mistakes in the following: <p>"In the last message Peter said "Why do it this way?". I would suggest the following: " <code>" X="23"" "Y="33" "</code> "as a better alternative" </p> Do I really have to a) escape every quote in my text (or use an entity reference for it) b) enter required RE's as part of the quoted string? If I have to do either of these I guarantee that half the documents I write would be invalid XML if I made the mistake of trying to use it as an authoring environment. ---- Martin Bryan, The SGML Centre, Churchdown, Glos. GL3 2PU, UK Phone/Fax: +44 1452 714029 WWW home page: http://www.u-net.com/~sgml/
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