- From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 12:36:47 -0400
- To: "David G. Durand" <dgd@cs.bu.edu> (David G. Durand), w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
At 11:09 AM 10/2/96 -0400, David G. Durand" (David G. Durand wrote: > I just realized that we are seriously hosed if we endorse the use of >shortrefs and some pseudo-element to implement an SGML-compatible a quoting >syntax for XML. Say, we define a pseudo element <pe>, for the sake of >argument. Now we need to document a restriction that no element may be >called <pe>, or else we will generate a terribly wrong ESIS. That doesn't seem like a big deal to me. I can't create an element called FULL_NAME either. =) (okay, okay, in the RCS) >We are also >likely to make the process of creating content models extremely difficult, >due to the name conflict, What's so difficult about avoiding a name conflict? >and content model cooking required in the >conversion to an SGML DTD. Again, I don't understand the difficulty. Paul Prescod
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