- From: Robert Streich <streich@slb.com>
- Date: Wed, 09 Oct 1996 01:59:17 -0500
- To: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
- Cc: W3C SGML Working Group <w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org>
At 03:10 PM 10/7/96 +0000, James Clark wrote: >2b. Internal SDATA entities > >Given that we can have Unicode character references, and given that Unicode >has a private use zone, and given internal CDATA entities, I don't think >these offer any really useful functionality. They also complicate the >interface: with internal SDATA entities, you can't treat attribute simply as >strings (unless you application maps them onto characters). There is the problem, that I discovered following the pointer that you provided me, that not all of the character entities have an equivalent in Unicode. I've only skimmed over this issue so far, so I don't have complete information, but I think it is still an issue. I have absolutely no concept as to how this "private use area" of Unicode will be exposed to the author, so the reference is lost on me, but if a browser vendor wants to give customers complete access to all of the Wingding or ZapfDingbat set for example, wouldn't it be easy to provide customers with an add-on entity set? If you do get rid of SDATA entities, then please provide a complete set of mnemonic CDATA entities that expand to numeric character entity references. Maybe that was understood, but I prefer to hear it explicitly. bob Robert Streich streich@slb.com Schlumberger voice: 1 512 331 3318 Austin Research fax: 1 512 331 3760
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