- From: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 18:24:55 +0000
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
At 11:16 15/10/96 -0400, Gavin Nicol wrote: >>For XML 1.0, we need to keep things as simple as possible. The simplest >>solution is: >> >>- No public identifiers, formal or otherwise. >> >>- System identifiers must be URLs. > >I disagree. Using FPI's and FSI's for naming is simple enough. I just counted the number of lines of code in the part of SP that handles external entities; I included just the URL and OSFILE storage mangers, and just the UTF-8 and Unicode encodings. It was more than 5000 lines. I don't see how we can possibly meet our goals for ease of implementation if this part of XML has this level of complexity. Don't get me wrong: I love FPIs and FSIs. But I strongly believe this whole XML exercise is going to be a total waste of time unless we exercise extreme self-restraint in the features we put in XML, especially in version 1.0. James
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