- From: David G. Durand <dgd@cs.bu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 15:34:49 -0400
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
The list in the following may help to clarify things.. At 11:20 PM 9/30/96, Charles F. Goldfarb wrote: >At that point it might be best to bite the rest of the bullet and always >delimit >data. Look at the advantages: > >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. Or, by contrast: ================ It might be best to bite the rest of the bullet and never delimit data. Look at the advantages: 1. No need to access a DTD to determine if an element is mixed content. 2. No REs, RSs, or other whitespace are ignored. 3. Really easy parsing. 4. Much simpler to explain. 5. No quotes to get wrong -- ever. -- David RE delenda est. --------------------------------------------+-------------------------- David Durand dgd@cs.bu.edu | david@dynamicDiagrams.com Boston University Computer Science | Dynamic Diagrams http://www.cs.bu.edu/students/grads/dgd/ | http://dynamicDiagrams.com/
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