- From: Joe English <jenglish@crl.com>
- Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 14:36:16 -0700
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
"W. Eliot Kimber" <kimber@passage.com> wrote: > [...] but I think it's clear, as James pointed out > what seems like years ago that the only real solution to the RE problem > that preserves SGML compatibility is to eliminate mixed content, which > means quoting data. This is not the *only* solution. Another is to forbid whitespace in element content. Another is to require that pseudoelements which contain nothing but whitespace be "escaped" with entity references. Still another (which nobody's mentioned yet for some reason :-) is to forbid *element* content, so that all whitespace becomes significant. The question is which of these options is the least unpalatable. Personally, I find a solution that lets me author in SGML and run instances through a simple normalizer to be far more palatable than one that requires me to add black magic to my SGML declaration and all of my DTDs before I can publish XML. --Joe English jenglish@crl.com
Received on Wednesday, 2 October 1996 17:36:09 UTC